Excellent editorial: Oklahoma, what have you done?

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/28/carr.abortion.oklahoma/index.html?hpt=T2

But a woman in Oklahoma no longer gets to exhale. Because now, when a doctor says, "Everything looks fine," she has to wonder; does it really? Oklahoma politicians have now said that she can no longer count on the sacred trust that always existed between her and her doctor. A doctor may now lie to her face and, in doing so, deny a woman what is quite possibly the most important piece of information she will ever receive in her life.

The very thought makes my breath catch even now. The information you get on those visits matters to every woman getting prenatal care, regardless of what she decides to do based upon the results. The legislators have decided that a woman, when she becomes pregnant, loses the right to full, honest information from her doctor.

I ask each politician in Oklahoma who voted yes on this bill: How dare you? How dare you deny a woman the peace of mind that her baby is healthy? How dare you not give her and her family time to prepare if, God forbid, her baby is not? How is this bill "pro-life"? How is this mockery of medical care and paternalistic devaluing of women, "pro-life"?

This bill is anti-mom, it's anti-doctor and it is anti-family. And all women, regardless of how they feel about abortion, should be appalled. I hope the courts stand up for the women and families whom politicians have turned their backs on and find this law unconstitutional and flat-out wrong.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Help me out. Did the OK legislature outlaw the tort of "wrongful birth" or "wrongful life"?

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Wrongful+Birth

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Both, you can't sue the doctor for not informing you of fetal defects.

[HillbillyBob]

3. low bastards aren't they?

I thinkk they should be sent out into the sahara see how prolife they are then..

[Beartracks]

4. Their pattin' themselves on the back now!

This sums it up Carr's piece nicely:

"Doesn't every family have the right to the information that may help them decide the course of their future or the future of their child? According to the Oklahoma State Legislature, they no longer do."

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