One of many complications of the abortion debate is that lawmakers are defining medical terms differently than doctors.
Panelists discuss abortion law in Ohio at the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar AssociationCLEVELAND, Ohio -- Recent anti-abortion laws and court rulings have shifted and disrupted the legal landscape.
“Ohio law doesn’t follow medicine,” said Case Western Reserve University law professor Jessie Hill. “So the definitions of things in Ohio law are not going to track the medical definitions.” “They are separate chapters in the textbook,” said Romanos. Medically, “treating an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.”
And in addition to the obvious medical contradictions, some aspects of the law are simply so vague and poorly written said Hill, that neither lawyers or doctors know exactly what it means. Take for example the legal exceptions for abortion. The current law says an abortion can be performed to save the mothers life or “prevent the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.”
In a real-life example, a patient in a Cincinnati hospital, whose fetus was about 20 weeks, self-administered a medical abortion and delivered the fetus alone in a hotel room. She later came to a Cincinnati hospital to be treated. Burkons, a OB/GYN and abortion provider who runs the Northeast Ohio Women’s Center and the Toledo Women’s Center, posed a slightly different hypothetical scenario.
Hill says the laws set up ethical dilemmas by forcing physicians to make a choice between their obligation to the patient, the oath that they took, and what is legal.
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