Ohio’s Republican Gov. John Kasich signed off on his 20th anti-abortion law since taking office in 2010. The bill signed into law by Kasich, H.B. 214, now levies a charge of a fourth-degree felony — punishable with up to 18 months of prison time — on any physician who performs an abortion on a patient knowing of, or even expressing concerns regarding, a Down syndrome diagnosis.

While supporters of the bill claim that it is meant to prevent discrimination against those with Down syndrome, legal experts, pro-choice advocates, and members of the Down syndrome community say it does anything but.

Gabriel Mann, the communications director for NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, explains that under Kasich, Ohio has lost half of its abortion clinics.

With this bill, “When a woman gets a Downs syndrome diagnosis, the last thing she needs is John Kasich telling her what’s right for her family, and that’s exactly what this bill will do,” Mann tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

Mann adds, H.B. 214 is not only “consistent with the other anti-abortion legislation Kasich has signed in the past,” but “does nothing to support families taking care of loved ones with Downs. Republicans refused amendments on the bill to help families guarantee access to Medicaid, special education funding, or provide direct financial assistance for families raising children with Downs. This bill just is a means to force abortion providers out of business and to end safe and legal abortion in Ohio. … This would force doctors to stop providing safe and legal abortion care because it threatens them with charges of a fourth-degree felony for a situation not under their control. It would be based on what intent the woman has, and then applies that felony charge to the doctor. It’s very severe step they are taking — and it’s blatantly unconstitutional, violates Roe, violated Casey, and is part of Kasich’s strategy of, just one piece at a time, trying to eliminate abortion access.”

Gary Daniels, chief lobbyist for the ACLU of Ohio, explains that H.B. 214 is part of a larger strategy on behalf of Kasich and other anti-choice activist lawmakers to find their way before the Supreme Court in an attempt to see Roe v. Wade overturned altogether.

“The Supreme Court is changing, there is a new president, older justices are retiring — the strategy is let’s get as many anti-choice bills through legislatures around the country including here in Ohio and let them work their way up to the Supreme Court of the United States and become an invitation to overturn Roe v. Wade and all the other decisions affirming Roe v. Wade. That’s their long game here — to get before the Supreme Court,” Daniels explains to Yahoo Lifestyle.

That said, Daniels notes the lower courts “don’t seem that interested in entertaining these bills seriously. This bill totally goes against the current court jurisprudence on reproductive rights. This Downs bill — and other states have bills kicking around on other genetic abnormalities — all share that courts keep striking them down all around the country and ironically, build up better case law for pro-choice advocates around the country.”

Daniels explains that the Supreme Court has made it clear that through the first and second trimester are when women have “an almost unfettered ability to have an abortion.” Thus, he says, bills like this one just signed by Kasich amount to a “Hail Mary pass — with the hope that the Supreme Court will be there on the other side to receive the Hail Mary pass.”

Yet, he says, “Downs bills, so-called ‘heartbeat bills,’ procedure bans, abortion bans before a certain date — they’re all the same. This is really no more complicated than that the Supreme Court has drawn a red line saying: ‘After this point, you can regulate abortion and before this point, you better have a really great reason as to why you’re doing this.’ And Down syndrome doesn’t make the cut, heartbeat bills don’t make the cut, procedure bans don’t make the cut. The Supreme Court hasn’t really found anything other than health and safety regulations relevant to impacting a woman’s ability to have an abortion.”

The new law, however, is “blatantly unconstitutional,” Daniels says, as it “talks about not being able to get an abortion if test results indicate Down, if you get a prenatal diagnosis of Down, or if a woman has any other reason to believe that a child has Down. You could be a pregnant woman out there and under the misconception that Down is wholly genetic, and that’s not true. You could say you consulted your astrologer, watched a documentary — there could be lots of reasons why women seek abortion, but if they ever use the magic words, ‘I think there might be Down,’ at that point, it becomes an illegal abortion.”

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