Last Tuesday, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill that would require women to get an ultrasound before getting an abortion. This bill wouldn’t require women to view the ultrasound; it would just require them to go through the effort of getting it and the doctor to describe the scene.

According to NewsOK.com the “House members didn’t ask questions or debate House Bill 2780.” They just passed it with an overwhelming majority.

Though this bill is attempting to prevent uneducated abortions and ensure potential mothers know the seriousness of their actions, this is the wrong way of going about it.

An ultrasound has absolutely nothing to do with the medical aspects of an abortion. Yet if many supporters of this legislation are calling for government to stay out of health care, why should they support government inserting itself in this manner? Is abortion a special exception allowing government interference in our lives?

They think this is a health issue they can get involved in, an issue that has nothing to do with our health, an issue they’ve passed three times now.

As this page has shown, abortion is an issue that never seems to go away. Legislators upset by Roe v. Wade keep trying to work with it, to make getting an abortion even more uncomfortable for the women.

Rather than attempting to serve the law and legislate accordingly, they attempt to impose new regulations on their constituents’ bodies and make it more difficult to follow the law.

This legislation is an unnecessary infringement of women’s rights to do with their bodies what they choose, and we should let our legislators know their overwhelming majority vote was unrepresentative of many of their constituents. Write them now.