Budget requires ultrasound before birth control

Kasich will line item veto, he isn’t that stupid.

While the bill is appalling, you actually don’t understand how hormonal birth control works, probably because you weren’t using it in the 70s and 80s while the formulations were changing a lot.

It’s a tradeoff between preventing ovulation and preventing implantation – doing all of one or all of the other requires really high doses with more serious side effects, but doing a balanced approach prevents most but not all ovulation and prevents ovulation as a backup. Getting to “vanishingly unlikely” doesn’t happen in modern formulations.

If you believe that life begins at conception (sounds like you don’t), then preventing implantation does end that human life, but it’s not ending a pregnancy, because the mother isn’t pregnant until implantation. That may help deal with the bill’s effects on birth control.

I never underestimate the attraction of “stupid” for the GOP.

Took the words out of my mouth.

FYI: The IUD Merina is having serious side effects and a woman can get pregnant and miscarry while it is inserted, also my daughter had several severe, bacteria infections caused by Merina that could have ultimately caused sterilization, they finally removed it because it had shifted in the uterus and when they removed it, it had changed color.
She is going for the implant in July, but this was a doctor recommended form of birth control.
Dude needs to study upon birth control methods and their side effects.
Good Luck Ohio Women.

I have it in PDF. Let me figure out how to add it…

Any tips from WordPress users would be appreciated.

I’ve read through the bill you uploaded, and I could not find where it states women must get an ultrasound before obtaining birth control- but must before an abortion! So, where did you get the “birth control” from?

I also cannot find the language you are referring to… What page/line is it on?

Do you really think so? I so hope you are right and that he has not drunk the Rick Perry kool-aid. Who ARE these people who claim listening to phone calls invades their privacy but crawling up into a woman’s vagina doesn’t??

OK, after reading the 38 page document, this guy MIGHT be stretching his interpretation a bit, but on the other hand, it’s easy to see how the pro-birthers would as well. The added text defines a pregnancy as ANY FERTILIZED EGG, not an egg implanted in the uterus. Since some birth control prevents implantation, it could be argued that The Pill causes abortions. Certainly my IUD would fall under that category since it’s one of the three methods in which it works.

Since the definition of the word “abortion” is the deliberate ending of a pregnancy, and pregnancy is now defined in Ohio law as the moment of fertilization (added text, Page 9 section G), birth control being given before a doctor has determined (externally only) whether or not there’s a fetal heartbeat can be met with criminal penalties (Page 11, section E). It’s ambiguous enough that they could make it stick.

The person who can bring charges is the head of Ohio Right to Life.

I don’t think they’ll successfully charge the doctor, but I think they’ll generate enough negative press to severely damage family planning providers.