Oh Ohio, I’m ashamed of you

Most of you know that Ohio is trying hella hard to backdoor Roe. The Toledo Blade wrote a wonderful editorial on how awful Ohio’s budget is, and how it is targeting women with disgusting restrictions. Tara Culp-Ressler wrote for ThinkProgress a summary of the WORST ABORTION BILL EVER (do the echo effect on ever). This bill, House Bill 200, came to be because someone thought they weren’t being clear with the budget. A group of 35 Republicans in the House introduced an omnibus anti-abortion bill that combines some of the worst attack on reproductive health.

The bill includes the following restrictions:

Mandates invasive ultrasounds, and forces women to pay for the cost of the extra procedure themselves. Classy. Force women to have an unnecessary ultrasound and then make them pay for it. The bill doesn’t explicitly say trans-vaginal ultrasound, but that is really the only one that can give you a picture of the first 12 weeks. And then, make the ladies pay for it because you know bitches be rolling in monies when they want to end a pregnancy.

Requires doctors to describe the ultrasound images to women seeking abortions, including details about the fetal heartbeat. If the heartbeat is audible then the doctor has to describe that. You know, causing emotional stress during a difficult decision making process. We all know this is intended to shame and coerce women seeking abortions.

Extends the waiting for abortion to 48 hours, and eliminate the option for women to bypass it because of a medical emergency. This is just fucking dangerous. Ohio already has a 24 hour waiting period, which adds the burden of cost and travel for multiple trips to the clinic. But they can bypass this in the case of a medical emergency. This bill would take that away. This bill would kill women.

Requires doctors to tell women scientifically disputed information about abortion risks. You know requires doctors to give false and medically disputed information about abortion because that is a good idea.

Requires doctors to tell patients how much money they earn from each abortion procedure. This is supposed to demonstrate how the doctors are profiteering off abortion services. You know what would be great if someone wrote up how much having a child would cost over time and distributing it or that NYT’s article on what happened to women denied abortions…SPOLIER poverty.

Punish doctors who don’t comply with the new restrictions with a felony charge and up to a $1 million dollar fine. Nothing like threats of jail time to force your agenda on the public. So you know, cumbersome restrictions and punishments for noncompliance to convince doctors to stop performing abortions…oh, that’s the point.

OH-I-O blows right now. Sorry ladies, guess your health is irrelevant to the theocracy. Fingers-crossed this won’t pass, but at this point I wouldn’t be surprised. Someone get this clowns out of office. Additionally, this puts abortion service provides at odds with the women they serve. A lot of this is just an attempt to get providers to stop providing services.