@GOP lawmaker admits he didn't research ectopic pregnancy before writing backwards bill about it

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"I heard about it over the years," Becker said. “I never questioned it or gave it a lot of thought.




GOP lawmaker admits he didn't research ectopic pregnancy before writing backwards bill about it


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/15/1905790/-Ohio-lawmaker-admits-he-didn-t-research-ectopic-pregnancy-before-writing-backwards-bill-about-it?utm_campaign=trending

Sunday December 15, 2019 · 10:51 AM CST





Wait, a Republican legislator talked to a single lobbyist — instead of doctors or scientists — when writing legislation about a complex and emotionally fraught subject?

That can’t be.

According to the AP, Ohio state Rep. John Becker worked with a conservative anti-choice lobbyist while writing a bill that would allow insurance companies to cover the reimplantation of ectopic pregnancies — nonviable pregnancies in which a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus.

There is no procedure for reimplanting such a pregnancy, of course, but that didn’t stop Becker from imagining there could be.

The bill prohibits insurers from covering abortion services, but provides an exception for a procedure “intended to reimplant” an ectopic pregnancy in a woman's uterus.

Becker told the newspaper he never researched whether re-implanting an ectopic pregnancy into a woman's uterus was a viable medical procedure before including it in the bill. Sheets declined comment.


And there you have the modern Republican Party’s credo: “I never gave it a lot of thought.”

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Another bill that would allow for the punishment of doctors who don’t try to reimplant ectopic pregnancies was recently introduced in the Ohio Legislature. Under that bill, doctors would face potential murder charges for not doing the impossible thing. And — guess what! — that provision was based 100 percent on pseudoscience, too!

Meanwhile, the resources that Becker and Sheets were relying on to write their bill were, shall we say, a skosh outdated.

The emails show Sheets encouraged Becker to push back after a Maryland geneticist questioned the scientific journal articles he was using to defend the provision. One was from 1980 and one was from 1917.
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https://radio.wosu.org/post/lawmaker-says-he-didnt-research-ectopic-pregnancy-procedure-adding-bill#stream/0


Lawmaker Says He Didn't Research Ectopic Pregnancy Procedure Before Adding To Bill




By Associated Press • Dec 12, 2019


.........State Rep. John Becker, a southwestern Ohio Republican, got help from Barry Sheets, a lobbyist for the Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio, as he crafted a measure that's since drawn international scrutiny for its questionable medical grounding, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Wednesday.

The bill prohibits insurers from covering abortion services, but provides an exception for a procedure “intended to reimplant” an ectopic pregnancy in a woman's uterus.

Becker told the newspaper he never researched whether re-implanting an ectopic pregnancy into a woman's uterus was a viable medical procedure before including it in the bill. Sheets declined comment.





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[Freddie]

1. "I tried to make a law without thinking about it"

Doesn’t that say it all.

[lark]

2. Yes, it definitely shows his anti-woman bias.

He just wants to control (hurt) women any way he can and force them to have unwanted babies - but of course the guy who got them pregnant faces no consequences whatsoever. I really hate these backward religious anti-women zealots! Vote out all the assholes!!

Vote blue no matter who and no matter where!

[Freddie]

6. I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns

My daughter recently went through a medically dangerous pregnancy and could have easily died. She did this because she WANTED another baby. (She and our granddaughter are fine now.) But all pregnancies and childbirths are potentially life-threatening. NO ONE should be forced to risk her life against her will!!! And no man, church or government has the right to force a woman to breed for them.

[lark]

7. !00% with you!

Of course they won't hold their daughters to this std. They just want us to burp out babies who will be poor ignorant and work for slave wages. Fuck them and hell no!

[Ohiogal]

3. The hubris of these while male chuckleheads

making life-and-death decisions for millions of women so recklessly and without any real thought just takes my breath away. This idiot should be sanctioned or better yet, forced to resign, for taking such a serious issue so lightly!

And the rest of the chuckleheads in the state keep electing them.

[marble falls]

4. It made perfect sense after a couple of martinis with the lobbyist. You had to be there.

[Midnightwalk]

5. The bill hasn't been withdrawn

What does an idiot say when he’s shown that he’s wrong? Blame others and do nothing to repair the harm.

Becker told The Enquirer he hadn't seen the two studies until after The Enquirer requested examples of research in May. He now acknowledges that there's no standard operating procedure for reimplanting ectopic pregnancies.

"But these are documented," he told the newspaper. "They should get the medical journals corrected if this is wrong."

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. I'm glad that somebody is noticing this

Republican politicians have been writing anti-choice laws for years that aren't grounded in any kind of medical or scientific or health or safety

[malaise]

9. This asshole

must have failed big time in school. I literally hate these people.
He's an ignorant misogynistic piece of shit.

[Takket]

10. This could apply to ANY piece of legislation they write

And even after he says this rethugs will still vote for it and deplorables will still shout for it.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Gynotician

Gynotician