The Oklahoma Legislature's Invasive, Anti-Choice Legislation

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from AlterNet's PEEK:



The Oklahoma Legislature's Invasive, Anti-Choice Legislation

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise at 1:02 PM on April 29, 2008.

The Oklahoma legislature wants to force invasive ultrasounds on women seeking abortions.




Anti-choicers in Oklahoma want to force women to undergo ultrasounds in order to obtain abortions.

These are non-therapeutic ultrasounds that are imposed for the sole purpose of showing the woman a picture of her own fetus.

The height of arrogance anti-choice arrogance is on display in this legislation: 'Excuse me, lady, you say you want an abortion. Did you realize that there's a fetus in there? You don't know what you're doing. Let me stick this tube into you, so that you can be competent to make a decision.'

The law requires the doctor to use whatever form of ultrasound that will yield the best pictures:

Under the guise of obtaining informed patient consent, this new law requires doctors to withhold pregnancy termination until an ultrasound is performed. The law states that either an abdominal or vaginal ultrasound, whichever gives the best image of the fetus, must be done. Neither the patient nor the doctor can decide which type of ultrasound to use, and the patient cannot opt out of the ultrasound and still have the procedure. In effect, then, the legislature has mandated that a woman have an instrument placed in her vagina for no medical benefit. The law makes no exception for victims of rape and incest. (Alternet)

Fun fact: The short-serving Bush Birth Control Czar Eric Keroack made name as a pioneer in the field of agitprop ultrasound.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/83889/

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1. Thats keeping the government out of our lives, just what conservatives want