Ohio state Rep. Click introduce bill that could ban IVF by recognizing 'personhood' from conception

[In It to Win It]

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio House Republicans introduced a new bill Monday that physicians worry would ban in vitro fertilization (IVF).

H.B. 704, sponsored by state Rep. Gary Click, a Republican from Vickery, would recognize "personhood" from the moment of conception.

"Nothing in this section shall be interpreted in any manner that would endanger the life of a mother," the three-sentence bill stated.

This wouldn't be the first time the Ohio GOP wanted to change the definition of personhood.

In H.B. 598, the total abortion ban that many Republicans are expecting to go into place in the winter, specifies that an "unborn child" refers to an "individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth."

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🚨Ohio Representative Click (HB 704) has introduced a bill that would effectively ban IVF, as well as various forms of birth control, on top of being extremely broad and vague.

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[PortTack]

1. Their goal is to have more white babies..yet they don't get that IVF is a very common procedure

By rich white women.

[Cheezoholic]

2. Yeah right

How are they gonna pay their attorney's lol. Fucking dipshits

[Initech]

3. Fuck these self righteous morons!

[tulipsandroses]

4. So about this personhood thing. What rights are being bequeathed to the new personhood?

Can you claim them as dependents on your taxes?
Cop just said no to HOV Lane
Can you get personhood support if you are separated?
So many questions.

[Ocelot II]

5. This is bad for men, too.

Men who are treated for some forms of cancer may become sterile as a result of the treatment, so they save their sperm for IVF later. These men will be prevented from becoming fathers of biological children - something IVF made possible - if this happens.

[haele]

6. He's going to have to put all women who have sex regularly in jail...

Time for someone go get a lot of used tampons and sanitary napkins. If life begins at conception, there's a massacre going on every day.
I seem to remember that something like 85 -90% of fertilized ovum - lady's egg - get flushed out during her menses.

In some women, that's like 12 deaths of innocent baybees a year!

Idiots who can't understand biology are trying to legislate science. Like they're some sort of Prophet or Gawd or magic wishmaker, or something like that.

Haele

[Diamond_Dog]

7. I am so sick and tired

Of these batshit insane misogynists and their regulations over something they know NOTHING about!!!

[In It to Win It]

10. It's a race to the bottom at this point

who can out-crazy each other... this is what the republican party as reduced itself to, not that it was so much better before.

[Solly Mack]

8. Does that mean I can claim frozen embryos as dependents?

If they're people with rights, then are they also not my dependents for the sake of taxes?

I can then claim 12 dependents every year on my taxes?

Including the cost of yearly upkeep, I can claim deductions for all 12 fertilized eggs once a year, every year, for the rest of my life?

After my death, can not a family member - that I name as guardian - then claim them as their dependents for tax purposes?

And so on and so on?

[tulipsandroses]

11. Those are my thoughts as well. I'm waiting for the first court battle

of a pregnant person requesting personhood support, in a situation where there is separation or divorce. You know it will happen eventually. That might get really interesting. Will the man win the case if he insists that life begins at birth? Or will he have to pay personhood support from the time of conception?

[Solly Mack]

13. They legal battles will be legend.

And ugly, and stupid.

[Hekate]

9. This is the absolutely logical outcome of declaring a fertilized egg to be a full person.

Cruel, cruel to infertile couples. But logical.

[Walleye]

12. Hey dickheads. Giving birth endangers the life of the mother