Oklahoma, where theocracy trumps a woman’s health
Oklahoma Enacts Tough Abortion Laws Requiring Ultrasounds
CHICAGO – Oklahoma lawmakers overrode their governor’s veto Tuesday to enact tough abortion laws that force women to undergo invasive ultrasounds and allow doctors to withhold test results showing fetal defects.
Even women who are victims of rape or incest will be required to listen to a detailed description of the fetus and view the ultrasound image prior to terminating a pregnancy.
The second bill shields doctors from “wrongful birth” malpractice lawsuits brought by parents who would have aborted a fetus had they been informed about its genetic or other defects.
Democratic Governor Brad Henry tried to block the bills last week, but the Republican-dominated Oklahoma legislature overwhelmingly overrode his veto with the help of Democrats.
Henry said that while he supports “reasonable” restrictions on abortions, the laws had serious constitutional flaws and represented an excessive intrusion of government into the private lives of its citizens.
“It is unconscionable to grant a physician legal protection to mislead or misinform a pregnant woman in an effort to impose his or her personal beliefs on his patient,” the governor said in his veto message.</em>
So Oklahoma demands, by force of law, that women must be lied to about the health of a fetus, regardless of risk to it or the mother…and then shields the activist theocratic assholes who did it?
Ok, here’s an idea. Every deformed and diseased child born in Oklahoma to a woman who didn’t want it? Take them to the drafters of this law, lay it on their doorstep, walk away. Once they all have a couple, onto the churches. You force a person to have a child that they normally wouldn’t, you raise it. No public funds, no child care system dumping…you. You think it’s ok to take choice out of the equation, well, so do we.
Your theocracy, your baby.
