El Tribunal de Apelaciones ratifica la prohibición del aborto por síndrome de Down en Ohio; Los jueces debaten la comparación de la eugenesia christianpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from christianpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A constitutional right to an abortion means a right to have one for any reason. That should also mean a woman can elect to tell her doctor or not why she wants an abortion.
But that’s not what is happening in Ohio, where the state Legislature in 2017 passed a ban on doctors performing abortions when they know the woman is seeking one because her fetus has been diagnosed with Down syndrome or is suspected of having it. The law also made it a felony for doctors to defy the law.
That measure is just one of hundreds of unjustified restrictions that state legislatures have passed in the last decade to curtail a woman’s right to an abortion up to the point when a fetus is viable outside a woman’s body (roughly 24 weeks into a pregnancy). The Supreme Court guaranteed that right nearly 50 years ago in the landmark case of Roe vs. Wade and has upheld it multiple times since then.
Trump s promise to overturn Roe v. Wade may still come true
The ruling means the conservative Supreme Court may be able to decide the Constitution does not protect a woman’s ability to have an abortion.
The decision provides a possible path for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
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This week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction against an Ohio law that makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion if the doctor knows or has reason to believe that a Down syndrome diagnosis, or the possibility of such a diagnosis, influenced the woman’s decision to seek an abortion.
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Appeals Court Upholds Ohio Law Prohibiting Down Syndrome Abortions
A divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday gave the green light for an Ohio law that seeks to protect unborn children with Down syndrome from being subjected to selective abortions.
The full court of the 6th Circuit ruled in a 9-7 en banc decision (pdf) to reverse a lower court ruling that blocked H.B. 214, known as the “Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act,” from being enforced. The 2017 law prohibits a doctor from performing an abortion if he or she has knowledge that the mother’s reason for aborting the pregnancy is due to a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis. Doctors who violate the law could be punished criminally and result in the revocation of their medical license.