A War on Women in Oklahoma

[babylonsister]

http://mydd.com/2010/4/27/a-war-on-women-in-oklahonm

A War on Women in Oklahoma

by Charles Lemos, Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 09:32:11 PM EDT


The Republican-controlled legislature in Oklahoma today overrode the veto of Governor Brad Henry, a Democrat, to pass one of the nation's most restrictive anti-abortion laws.

There are two measures. The first requires that women undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion. This is tantamount to psychological torture. The second measure now law in the Sooner State protects doctors from malpractice suits if they decide not to inform the parents of a unborn baby that the fetus has birth defects. The intent of this measure is to prevent parents from later suing doctors who withhold information to try to influence them against having an abortion.

From the New York Times:

Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat, vetoed both bills last week. The ultrasound law, he said, was flawed because it did not exempt rape and incest victims and was an unconstitutional intrusion into a woman’s privacy. He painted the other measure as immoral.

“It is unconscionable to grant a physician legal protection to mislead or misinform pregnant women in an effort to impose his or her personal beliefs on a patient,” Mr. Henry said.

The Republican majorities in both houses, however, saw things differently. On Monday, the House voted overwhelmingly to override the vetoes, and the Senate followed suit at 10:42 a.m. Tuesday, making the two measures law.

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These days anything touched by Republican hands is, by definition, extreme. This is a party that has declared war on women, on immigrants, on the elderly, on the sick and infirm, on those with pre-existing conditions, on the poor, on you and on me. These laws are, as Governor Henry noted, unconscionable.

[depakid]

1. Oklahoma is obne sick, sick state

Makes Texas look sane by comparison, eh?

[madokie]

3. Please

Our pols are but we the people, well some of us anyway are ok :hi:

Around the same time that we adopted electronic vote counting machines our politicians have gone to hell in a hand basket. You won't find a puke running for office around here on the local level, hell most times our elections are settled at the primary stage with no general election needed, for local pol's. I smell rotten electronic vote counting machines is what I smell living here.
Peace.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I can see this future scenario.

A woman wants to have an abortion. The doctor reads the mandatory detailed description of the fetus and the results of the ultrasound. But the fetus is horribly deformed but the doctor doesn't tell the patient about this finding. She changes her mind, has the baby, finds it horribly handicapped but can't sue the doctor for malpractice for not telling her about the ultrasound findings that were mandated to begin with.

[Hepburn]

4. Insane...totally insane.

Where the hell did the right to privacy go? Where the hell did the duty to the patient herself go? And what the hell happened to choice?

:puke:

[Odin2005]

5. Oklahoma sucks!

[Tsiyu]

6. I have hope that the women of OK

will stand up and tell the Repuke males in their state to Shove it.

I'll guarantee that every one of the Repuke assholes who supported this bill is either cheating on his wife with hookers or diddling with the underage. Repuke politicians are the biggest pervs on the planet.

They all need to be stalked and their sex secrets outed since these cretins believe a woman's sexual organs are THEIR fucking biz. Keep 'em so busy watching their backs they don't have time to write any more medieval legislation.

Gawd, this pisses me off.....