One provision especially worried doctors.

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The latest available version of HB 182 has an exception that would allow insurance to cover a treatment that does not exist.

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“A procedure for an ectopic pregnancy, that is intended to reimplant the fertilized ovum into the pregnant woman’s uterus."

An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, or in the wrong part of the uterus, and usually presents in the first trimester. With the exception of some very rare cases of abdominal pregnancies, ectopic pregnancies do not result in the birth of a child and can cause potentially fatal ruptures and hemorrhages.

The treatment laid out in the bill is “science fiction,” according to Daniel Grossman, an OB/GYN and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California at San Francisco who debunked this passage in a viral Twitter thread on Wednesday.

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“We don’t have the technology to do that,” Grossman told The Washington Post on Thursday. He said he had treated many patients with the condition who wanted children. “Nothing can be done to continue that pregnancy.”

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Rather, ectopic pregnancies are treated with surgery or medication.

“This is one example of a much larger problem about how these abortion restrictions have nothing to do with the practice of medicine or science,” Grossman said.

Several states have considered or enacted legislation known as “heartbeat bills,” which ban most abortions after six weeks into a pregnancy. Ohio’s governor signed one such bill into law in April. Critics of these bills claim that they ban abortion before a woman would likely know that she is pregnant, making it all but impossible to undergo the procedure.

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HB 182′s flaws represent “a new level of arrogance among legislators to think that they can practice medicine without even going to medical school,” Grossman said.

The bill’s inaccuracy could create confusion about how and when a doctor would be able to treat a woman for an ectopic pregnancy, which could put her health at risk, experts say.

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Anything that causes an insurance provider to consider, “am I potentially breaking a law by providing a medical procedure or covering a medical procedure?” will limit coverage for women, said Alina Salganicoff, vice president and director of women’s health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Salganicoff said that such false assertions in a bill could hamper legitimate conversation around women’s health.

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“There’s already a lot of misinformation about contraception and abortion,” she said. “This adds yet another element into the mix.”

Ectopic pregnancy is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity among pregnant women, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Ectopic pregnancies accounted for 2.7 percent of all pregnancy-related deaths in the United States between 2011 and 2013.

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In an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg will most commonly implant in the fallopian tube, a thin pathway where eggs are fertilized and travel from the ovary to the uterus. In rarer cases, implantation can also occur in a corner of the uterus, an ovary, cervix or abdomen.

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And it can be deadly.

“The biggest risk for the mom is when these ectopics invade through wherever they are implanted and then they rupture,” said Chris Zahn, a vice president at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. “That can result in catastrophic hemorrhage and death.”

Ideally, the condition is discovered and treated by doctors before it ruptures, and if the issue is in the fallopian tube, that structure can be saved to preserve future fertility.

Treating an ectopic pregnancy would not be considered terminating a pregnancy, Zahn said. “The pregnancy’s never going to be viable,” he said. “In many of these cases, a fetus might not even develop."

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Becker, the bill’s sponsor, did not respond to a request for comment.

After facing backlash, Becker wrote on Facebook Wednesday that his detractors were “crazy” and defended the legislation.

In an interview with the State House News Bureau on Tuesday, Becker falsely asserted the existence of a method to save an ectopic pregnancy. “Part of that treatment would be removing that embryo from the fallopian tube and reinserting it in the uterus so that is defined as not an abortion under this bill,” he said.

Again, no such procedure exists.

He also said, despite the fact that his bill addresses such drugs and devices, “When you get into the contraception and abortifacients, that’s clearly not my area of expertise."