{"id":217095,"date":"2020-01-17T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T21:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217095"},"modified":"2020-01-17T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T21:39:29","slug":"ohio-bill-banning-telemed-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-bill-banning-telemed-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio state senator to introduce bill to ban telemed abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ohio State Senator Steve Huffman has said he will introduce a bill next week that would prohibit the administration of the abortion pill via telemedicine. According to NBC 4<\/a>, the bill would require a woman seeking the abortion pill to visit an abortion facility.<\/p>\n

“It’s about safety,” explained Huffman. “… It’s so important that someone should be there looking somebody in the eye and making that decision, not somebody out in California or New York that has a website that you can get on and get the medication to have an abortion.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Planned Parenthood expands telemedicine app as industry looks to remove abortion pill safeguards<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are 24 known cases of women dying as a result of the abortion pill, although only about half of all states<\/a> are even required to report abortion complications — and some women are told that in the case of complications to tell the emergency room staff that they are miscarrying, not that they have taken the abortion pill. Because of these factors, it is impossible to know the true number of complications and maternal deaths from the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

Complications<\/a>\u00a0and side effects of the abortion pill including vomiting, hemorrhaging, massive clots, hospitalization, and life-threatening infections. One large-scale study even points to the abortion pill having four times<\/em> the risk of serious complications compared to surgical abortions.<\/p>\n