10 year old Ohio abortion: 2 more raped minors denied Ohio abortions (cincinnati.com)
Affidavits: 2 more pregnant minors who were raped were denied Ohio abortions
Marty Schladen
Ohio Capital Journal
At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies,
according to sworn affidavits filed by abortion providers.
The affidavits were filed in Cincinnati as part of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the enforcement of Ohio’s strict new abortion law. Originally paused for two weeks, the enforcement delay will be
extended to at least Oct. 12.
If true, the affidavits show that
a 10-year-old from Columbus was not the only child or teen rape victim forced to leave the state. They also describe more than two dozen other instances in which the abortion law put women under extreme duress.
The descriptions include those of three women who threatened suicide. They also include two women with cancer who couldn’t terminate their pregnancies and also couldn’t get cancer treatment while they were pregnant.
Another three examples were of women whose fetuses had severe abnormalities or other conditions that made a successful pregnancy impossible. Even so, they couldn’t get abortions in Ohio.
And in three cases, debilitating vomiting was caused by pregnancy ‒ so bad in one case that a woman couldn’t get off the clinic floor. But neither could these women get abortions in Ohio, the affidavits said.
“In the days after SB 23 took effect, we had to cancel over 600 appointments,” Dr. Sharon Liner, medical director of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio in Cincinnati, said in her affidavit.
Liner added, “We have had at least three patients threaten to commit suicide. Another patient said she would attempt to terminate her pregnancy by drinking bleach. Another asked how much vitamin C she would need to take to terminate her pregnancy.”
In July, 60% of patients at the clinic had to be turned away because fetal cardiac activity had been detected by the initial ultrasound, Liner said.