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AFY_Joe
AFY_JoeFriday, October 9, 2009 at 4:52:00 PM EDT
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For the last 4 months, conservatives having been screaming about the threat of healthcare reform allowing the big scary government to interfere in their personal lives. Death panels, forced government coverage that denies you services, etc...
All scare tactics, sure, but take a look at what conservatives in Oklahoma have just passed. A new law will mandate that women seeking an abortion have the following personal information about them posted publicly on a website:
- Date of abortion
- County in which abortion performed
- Age of mother
- Marital status of mother (married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)
- Race of mother
- Years of education of mother (specify highest year completed)
- State or foreign country of residence of mother
- Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother (Live Births, Miscarriages, Induced Abortions)
But this also publicly reveals the very nature of extreme anti-choice conservatives and what motivates them. It is a lack of respect and absolute contempt for women... their rights, their independence, their privacy, and their standing as equal members of society.
Rachel Maddow hit the nail on the head last night when she talked about the possible motivations for such a law. Conservatives know that abortion is a safe, legal and common medical procedure, and they are having great difficulty changing this reality. So in the face of not having the constitution to stand on, they just want to make the process of going through an abortion as difficult, public, and degrading as they possibly can for women who choose to do so. It is nothing less than legalized intimidation and harassment of women... simply because they can.
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It's hard to believe that something like this could happen. We need to protect women's rights! I feel really bad for the women of Oklahoma.
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