thoughts about these parts of House Bill 182? (tw-ectopic pregnancies/miscarriage)

note: this is NOT a discussion about the banned topic, and i have the go-ahead from admin. also, this is a somewhat repeat of a previously written post in here, but that one was deleted due to being more about aforementioned topic and less about the bill (plus the fact it was on anonymous). this will go a bit more into depth.

if you would like to read the entire thing, feel free to look it up as not everything involved is mentioned here.

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John Becker, a Republican Representative in Ohio, has proposed legislation that would result in the following things:

1) insurance would be banned from covering any “drugs and devices” that could act to prevent fertilized ovum from implanting in the uterine wall. (this means plan b/morning after pill, some forms of IUD, and possibly several other kinds of contraceptives such as the shot, the implant, and the pill because these forms can, in some cases, result in a fertilized egg not being able to implant.)

2) insurance would be expanded to cover "a procedure for an ectopic pregnancy, that is intended to reimplant the fertilized ovum into the pregnant woman's uterus." (yes, you read that right. this man has just publicly proposed that insurance should cover a science-fiction procedure that is, still today, medically impossible.)

3) since the previously mentioned procedure is not a thing, women would have to wait until their lives are in immediate danger before the surgery to save them is allowed to be performed.

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1/5 of the house is on board with this so far. as of right now, there are 21 co-sponsors to this bill.

when later asked about it, Becker said that he did not say he wanted birth control in general to be banned. he claimed:

“When you get into the contraception ... that’s clearly not my area of expertise, but I suppose, if it were true that what we typically known as the pill would [cause fertilized ovum to not implant], then I would imagine the drug manufacturers would reformulate it so [it] ... is strictly a contraceptive."

personally i don’t understand why this man is allowed to make laws regarding female bodies if he doesn’t even understand the implications of what he’s proposing.