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.
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I agree with the editorial, but please god not The Abortion Daily again.
A few questions:
"Rather than attempting to serve the law and legislate accordingly, they attempt to impose new regulations "
That sounds like a definition of legislation. Making laws. Agree with the law or disagree with it, but I don't get this argument against legislators making up new laws.
Nationalized health care is also a new an unprecedented law, but I'm sure many against legislators ability to make new laws about abortion don't mind this new law.
Curious also that there is a problem with legislators legislating, but not when the Supreme Court legislated on the issue, which is not where that's supposed to happen.
I also somewhat doubt that being against abortion is at odds with most of the Oklahoman's representatives. I don't have any numbers, but the state seems somewhat conservative to me.
"An ultrasound has absolutely nothing to do with the medical aspects of an abortion"
If the baby has nothing to do with the "medical" aspects of the abortion, what exactly constitutes the "medical" aspects?
I thought we were supposed to be talking about bread.
Point # 1: Studies have shown, and numerous personal testimonies I've heard from women who have had abortions have revealed that women can be negatively affected for life emotionally and even physically after their abortions. These women weren't paid off by pro-life lobbyists - their stories are REAL, and there are certainly countless more like them who are suffering after their abortions who we don't yet know about, because we don't hear their stories often for many years to come after the abortion, and the media doesn't report on these stories.
Point #2: Women aren't given all the facts before their abortion, and the abortion industry hides/fudges the facts while simultaneously breaking the laws. I'm not making this up. I've listened to the heartbreaking accounts of women who would have carried their pregnancies to term if they had seen an ultrasound or given more of an accurate picture about what to expect AFTER the abortion; I've read so many stories where women changed their minds and kept the pregnancy after seeing an ultrasound. For all the mantra about "choice" most women go turn to abortion precisely because they feel like they have no "choice". Some of them are forced into it by family members or their boyfriend or husband, against their will. Is that "choice"? So many didn't realize the life that was really in them until they saw the ultrasound. Undercover videos from the organization LiveAction (www.liveaction.org) have shown Planned Parenthood officials violating parental notification laws for underaged women and failing to report child sex abuse, and lying to women about the facts of abortion. Planned Parenthood officials are trained to tell the women "it's not a baby" , when the truth of that statement is FAR from validated and settled. In fact, in 1952, Planned Parenthood themselves even acknowledged that abortion "kills the life of a baby": http://liveaction.org/blog/planned-paren... . Women aren't told that anymore, and so they understandably are led to believe that getting an abortion is inconsequential; reality doesn't hit until AFTER the fact, and it's too late then. These women are being misled and LIED to by Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. Wouldn't even "pro-choice" people want women to have all the facts and accurate information first? But then again, abortion is the most lucrative part of PP's business. Not that I would expect the OU Daily or any of the other media to set aside their pro-abortion ideologies and investigate any of this.
Point #3: "This legislation is an unnecessary infringement of women’s rights to do with their bodies what they choose..." Well I guess that settles it. There's no possibility that the unborn life in the womb is human and might have natural inalienable rights too. How arrogant.
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