"The new Ohio HB413, p.184: To avoid criminal charges, including murder, for abortion, a physician must [attempt to] reimplant an ectopic pregnancy into the women's uterus. I don't believe I'm typing this again but, that's impossible. We'll all be going to jail."
In a viral Twitter thread, researcher Dr. Daniel Grossman called re-implanting a fertilized egg or embryo "pure science fiction."
Vice-president of practice activities at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Chris Zahn, added:
"It is not possible to move an ectopic pregnancy from a fallopian tube, or anywhere else it might have implanted, to the uterus. Reimplantation is not physiologically possible. Women with ectopic pregnancies are at risk for catastrophic hemorrhage and death in the setting of an ectopic pregnancy, and treating the ectopic pregnancy can certainly save a mom's life."
More than a dozen states this year have sought to outlaw abortion.
Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and Tennessee, have advanced anti-choice bills past one chamber of its legislature.
Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Texas, and West Virginia have also introduced anti-choice legislation.
All told, 61 anti-choice bills have been introduced across the country.
This is not just about individual states' rights.
It's about overturning the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case Roe versus Wade that legalized abortion.
Back in May, when Alabama took a flamethrower to reproductive rights, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted:
"Women's rights are under attack. This relentless and cruel Republican assault on women's health is designed to force a court battle to destroy Roe v. Wade. Democrats will be ready to defend health care and women's reproductive freedom."
And it's exactly what the religious right expected to get when it threw its wholehearted support behind the mendacious thrice-married philanderer Donald J. Trump for president and his "Christian" running mate, Michael Pence.
It was Pence, who, as Indiana governor ordered Purvi Patel imprisoned for 20 years for having a miscarriage, alleging she had taken an abortifacient, despite tests confirming Patel did not have any drugs in her system.
Just before being elected vice president, Pence signed legislation requiring miscarried and aborted fetuses "interred or cremated," regardless of pregnancy duration.
This was the impetus behind the "Periods for Pence," movement, in which women tweeted or called Pence's office to inform him when their periods started and ended so the state wouldn't mistake their usual menstruation periods for miscarriages.
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