Okla. Overides Veto, Passes Bills To Restrict Abortions

By Jeralyn, Section Legislation
Posted on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 06:05:33 PM EST
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Oklahoma has enacted two bills intended to restrict abortions, overriding the Governor's vetos. The bills become effective immediately.

Under one law, women must listen to an ultrasound and hear a spiel describing the fetus.

Oklahoma’s law goes further [than those in other states] requiring a doctor or technician to set up the monitor where the woman can see it and describe the heart, limbs and organs of the fetus. No exceptions are made for rape and incest victims.

The second law exempts doctors from malpractice suits for failing to tell prospective parents their fetus has birth defects.

Maybe Oklahama and Arizona can secede from the union. They deserve each other. We deserve better than both of them.

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and (5.00 / 3) (#2)
by Capt Howdy on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 06:24:04 PM EST

apparently more are coming. like the one that makes all information about abortions public.

when have we EVER made medical information about ANYTHING public?

they wouldnt even let them do that with AIDs.

: Yes, creepy (none / 0) (#11)
by ZtoA on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 07:52:50 PM EST

The new wave: Everyone will Know Everything about Everyone. And the stocks are back 'in' for behavior management, its just that now the stocks are virtual and uploadable.
Medical records were recently misused by WellPoint in order to cancel coverage for breast cancer patients. Supposedly if a person does not reveal every last thing for their medical records they are committing fraud?

It's gotten scary in the good ol' USA (5.00 / 1) (#3)
by mexboy on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 06:31:41 PM EST

What's with all the legislated control over people's lives?

I think this is all about religion and imposing people's interpretation of their holy books on others.

That first law is bad. The second one (5.00 / 1) (#4)
by tigercourse on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 06:37:49 PM EST

is just completely and utterly freaking nuts. If you live in Oklahoma, go to another state to see a doctor.

The second law (5.00 / 7) (#5)
by Molly Pitcher on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 07:06:49 PM EST

was drafted by diseased minds which should have been aborted before birth. Does the state of Oklahoma intend to provide lifetime care for all its handicapped citizens? Any ob-gyn. who unilaterally decides to prevent abortion of a defective fetus by leaving the parents in ignorance is making himself into a 'god'--thus smashing to smithereens the Ten Commandments.

ps--written by the loving mother of a Downs adult, a mother who nonetheless understands that love can not be legislated and that 'saving' every baby will sentence some of those children to life in a virtual prison.

Of course not (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 07:17:57 PM EST

And we have those studies now that mothers of disabled children end up with a shortened life span, I suppose because of the stress. But Oklahoma wants every child born so the state itself can attempt to kill it by denying it everything that it needs to live. If Josh has shortened my life I don't think I mind so much, he has made it worth it but my child can talk to me and interact with me and I was always a very strong person.....just born that way. I am not the average woman or the average mom because I can muster a crazy determination when needed, and for those not so crazy welcome to a lifetime of crippling stress and debilitating depressions that will never actually leave you.....even if eventually your child passes away from his/her deformities. Oh yeah, and your marriage will fail too unless you are as big a freak as I am and marry someone equally as bizarre, the odds are so stacked against both of you it isn't even funny. Enjoy life in Oklahoma though, if you wanted all this and voted to have these laws it could be true that you deserve what will happen to many of you. Those more fortunate can act smug too and superior, as if God is happy with them and the rest of you are such losers you had it coming.


Yep, MT, you know! (5.00 / 3) (#15)
by Molly Pitcher on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 08:16:53 PM EST

Have you ever had some sanctimonious idiot tell you 'God chose you to have Josh because you are so strong'? If I was not strong to start with, having my daughter when I was 24 gsve me a boot in the right direction. I suppose that strength paid off as I raised my oldest and then three more. (And as their father and I applied CPR to our marriege every so often because we were both determined to 'be there' for the oldest, who finally moved out when she was 43.)

Don't know if I could do what you do everyday; my own road seems rather tame. But I strongly suspect that, like me, you will be rolling along well into old age--because you too have collected the good stuff of life along the way.


Josh is a binding force (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by Militarytracy on Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 09:23:05 PM EST

I had to quit focusing on how we were changing and how much we were changing into something that was not beautiful and often times so heavy hearted and despairing, balanced upon only attempting to suffer a little less if we could somehow bring that about. Now we have been forged into an amalgamation of sheer determination and must take forced breaks to "remember" how much we love each other (sometimes my husband says it reminds him of scheduled morale time and forced fun events that everyone must participate in in the Army). We always laughed a lot together and we always enjoyed the slightly dry joke, I have noticed though that from the longterm stress our joint sense of dry humor often shocks people leading lives a little less desperate.


: yep-- (