We're going backward....

[one_voice]

Utterly and completely disgusting!!! And a violation of privacy...IMO.. They won't be happy till we're barefoot, pregnant, and submissive. :grr: :banghead:



Oklahoma’s Assault On Women’s Rights: Legislature Reapproves Bill Posting Abortion Details Online

The Oklahoma legislature is one of the most hostile elective bodies to women’s rights in the nation. Last year, it passed a far-right measure that would have collected personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and posted them on a public website. Although the questionnaire would not have asked for name, address, or “any information specifically identifying the patient,” as Feminists for Choice pointed out, the questions could easily be used to identify a woman in a small community.

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After protests and national attention, an Oklahoma County district judge ruled the law unconstitutional in February, saying that it violated the “single-subject” rule, which requires that laws address only one topic at a time. As the Tulsa World explained, it was the second time in recent years that the legislature had had its overreaching ruled unconstitutional:

The law also would have banned abortions based on a woman’s gender preference for her child; created new responsibilities for state health agencies to gather and analyze abortion data and enforce abortion restrictions; and redefined a number of abortion-related terms used in Oklahoma law. <...>

This is the second time in two years that the Oklahoma legislature has tried to restrict abortion in the state by bundling numerous provisions into one bill. In September, the Oklahoma District Court struck down another state law imposing various abortion restrictions, including the most extreme ultrasound requirement in the country, ruling that it violated the state’s single subject rule.

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Yesterday, the Oklahoma House returned to the website bill and passed it, 88-8, with “little discussion and no debate.” It now heads to the Senate, where it is also likely to pass. ThinkProgress contacted Henry’s office and asked whether he would veto the this measure as well, but we have not yet received a response.

Last year, we spoke with Oklahoma state Rep. Jeannie McDaniel (D) — one of the eight lawmakers to vote against the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act — who said that in each of the five sessions she’s been a lawmaker, “there has been a bill introduced in the Oklahoma legislature regarding women’s reproductive rights. … Each year, it creeps a little more toward taking away women’s freedoms, more restrictions between the doctors.” Recently, Anita Fream, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma, spoke to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and said that the state needs “national help” in bringing attention to the assault on women’s rights in the state. “We need everyone speaking out no matter where they are from,” she said.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/11/oklahoma-abortion-website2/

[rfranklin]

1. Isn't this a violation of HIPPA?

I would think that this would be struck down by a Federal court.

[Dappleganger]

2. It should be.

All of these invasions of medical privacy shenanigan bills should be violations of HIPAA. That was one argument I used when contacting Gov. Crist here in FL about our own atrocious anti-choice bill.

Yes, it certainly seems like a huge step backwards and more restrictions on women's rights.

[one_voice]

3. Why is it...

that the very people that scream for a smaller government, and want the government to stay of their lives, are the very people that intrude on the most personal parts of our lives?

It never has anything to do with the betterment our country, but more to do with THEIR personal beliefs. It's none of their business or anyone else's who I sleep with, who I marry, if I choose to have an abortion, or smoke a joint. WTF?!?!? Mind your damn business, and before you attempt to ram your beliefs down my throat, why don't you clean up your own "house".

[Zoeisright]

4. Exactly. They also don't know this Bible verse:

"Why should my freedom be judged by someone else's conscience?" 1 Corinthians 10:29

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. While I am 100% against this stupid bill ...

... it would be interesting to see the names of the pro-lifers on the list.
:rofl:

But, no, this is a bad bill. I would sacrifice my lame sense of irony to preserve the privacy of medical interactions.

:hi: