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The Oklahoma legislature recently overrode the governor's veto of legislation that requires any woman considering an abortion to have a transvaginal ultrasound during which a long list of the fetus's body parts must be pointed out to the patient.
The law also states that doctors are no longer required to inform patients should they be suspicious of a birth defect or have any other information about the fetus that might increase the chances a patient would want to have an abortion. The law also provides for malpractice protection to doctors who withhold information about a fetus.
Here was the governor's response when he vetoed it: “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.”
The Speaker of the Oklahoma House, who supports the new abortion legislation, had this to say about Obamacare:
“We are entering into an era of government, an activist government, like we have never seen in our country,” Benge said. “We have a government that believes that it can be all things to all people; we have a government that has no boundaries or no conscious when it comes fiscal prudence; we have a government that believes it can create some utopian society or a perfect world without suffering or pain.”
Here is a newspaper article from today with commentary from one clinic:
The manager of an Oklahoma abortion clinic says complying with the requirements of the state's new ultrasound law is causing some patients to become emotional.
Reproductive Services of Tulsa director Linda Meek said Wednesday the clinic is complying with a new law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion.
But Meek says the experience has been difficult for some patients. She says some have walked out of the room where ultrasound procedures are performed in tears because of what they had to hear. She says no patients have canceled an abortion.
The clinic is challenging the constitutionality of the law. A hearing on a temporary restraining order is set Monday.
The law also states that doctors are no longer required to inform patients should they be suspicious of a birth defect or have any other information about the fetus that might increase the chances a patient would want to have an abortion. The law also provides for malpractice protection to doctors who withhold information about a fetus.
Here was the governor's response when he vetoed it: “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.”
The Speaker of the Oklahoma House, who supports the new abortion legislation, had this to say about Obamacare:
“We are entering into an era of government, an activist government, like we have never seen in our country,” Benge said. “We have a government that believes that it can be all things to all people; we have a government that has no boundaries or no conscious when it comes fiscal prudence; we have a government that believes it can create some utopian society or a perfect world without suffering or pain.”
Here is a newspaper article from today with commentary from one clinic:
The manager of an Oklahoma abortion clinic says complying with the requirements of the state's new ultrasound law is causing some patients to become emotional.
Reproductive Services of Tulsa director Linda Meek said Wednesday the clinic is complying with a new law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion.
But Meek says the experience has been difficult for some patients. She says some have walked out of the room where ultrasound procedures are performed in tears because of what they had to hear. She says no patients have canceled an abortion.
The clinic is challenging the constitutionality of the law. A hearing on a temporary restraining order is set Monday.
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