{"id":237726,"date":"2021-01-11T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237726"},"modified":"2021-01-11T20:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T02:14:56","slug":"ohio-governor-dewine-telemedicine-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ohio-governor-dewine-telemedicine-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signs state telemedicine abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Saturday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed<\/a> a bill banning the use of telemedicine to administer the abortion pill in the state.\u00a0The bill, SB 260<\/a>, would effectively ban telemedicine abortions in Ohio by requiring that a physician be present when the first of the two drugs in the abortion pill regimen is administered to a woman<\/a>. Failure to abide by this law could result in a fourth-degree felony, and repeated violations of the law could result in the suspension of the offending physician’s medical license.<\/p>\n

“Abortion-inducing drugs kill innocent, preborn humans and are very dangerous to mothers,” said Mark Harrington, president of the Ohio-based pro-life group Created Equal, in an email. “These drugs have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings, including two dozen mothers. Allowing abortionists to prescribe these life-threatening drugs using telecommunications, instead of seeing patients in person, will only increase the complications.”<\/p>\n