SB 1878 - Abortion Bill

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This law should have been overturned.

How can the government make a person get an unneccessary medical procedure?

I don't want my tax dollars to keep fighting this.

More bad stuff for future economic development....

Okla. House overrides abortion restrictions vetoes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042603655.html

" Each of the vetoed bills passed the 48-member Senate 35-11, one vote shy of the three-quarters majority needed to override. Anti-abortion legislation supporter Sen. Mike Mazzei, R-Tulsa, was absent when both bills received final passage.

Tony Lauinger, state chairman of the anti-abortion group Oklahomans for Life and vice president of the National Right to Life Committee, said Mazzei is expected to be in the Senate chamber Tuesday. "

Lauinger is a stupid prick. Everyone now will know....Oklahoma is off limits.

[Hoss]

Governor Henry's remarks are probably correct.  This bill will likely be tied up in the courts for a while.

This state never ceases to amaze me.

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Senate overrides Henry's veto:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=17&articleid=20100427_17_0_OKLAHO771360

[Townsend]

The Onion make fun and almost gets the Oklahoma capital's location correct.

Oklahoma Doctors Can Legally Pretend To Give Abortions

http://www.theonion.com/video/oklahoma-doctors-can-legally-pretend-to-give-abort,19425/

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/20-week-abortion-ban-nebraska-oklahoma-fetus-feel/story?id=13116214

Danielle Deaver was 22 weeks pregnant when her water broke and doctors gave her a devastating prognosis: With undeveloped lungs, the baby likely would never survive outside the womb, and because all the amniotic fluid had drained, the tiny growing fetus slowly would be crushed by the uterus walls.

"What we learned from the perinatologist was that because there was no cushion, she couldn't move her arms and legs because of contractures," said Deaver, a 34-year-old nurse from Grand Isle, Neb. "And her face and head would be deformed because the uterus pushed down so hard."

After having had three miscarriages, Deaver and her husband, Robb Deaver, looked for every medical way possible to save the baby. Deaver's prior pregnancy ended the same way at 15 weeks, and doctors induced her to spare the pain.

But this time, when the couple sought the same procedure, doctors could not legally help them.

Just one month earlier, Nebraska had enacted the nation's first fetal pain legislation, banning abortions after 20 weeks gestation. So the Deavers had to wait more than a week to deliver baby Elizabeth, who died after just 15 minutes.

"They could do nothing to make it better but tell us to wait, which made it worse," Danielle Deaver said. "Every time I felt movement, I was terrified she was hurting and trying to push the uterus away from her."

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This goes alongside availability and acceptance of birth control in these countries.


Abortions Are More Common in Countries that Outlaw Them

Abortion rates are higher in countries where the procedure is illegal and nearly half of all abortions worldwide are unsafe, with the vast majority in developing countries, a new study concludes.
Experts couldn't say whether more liberal laws led to fewer procedures, but said good access to birth control in those countries resulted in fewer unwanted pregnancies.

The global abortion rate remained virtually unchanged from 2003 to 2008, at about 28 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, a total of about 43.8 million abortions, according to the study. The rate had previously been dropping since 1995.

About 47,000 women died from unsafe abortions in 2008, and another 8.5 million women had serious medical complications. Almost all unsafe abortions were in developing countries, where family planning and contraceptive programs have mostly levelled off.

"An abortion is actually a very simple and safe procedure," said Gilda Sedgh, a senior researcher at the U.S.-based Guttmacher Institute, designated by the World Health Organization as an official Collaborating Center for Reproductive Health. "All of these deaths and complications are easily avoidable," said Sedgh, the study's lead author.

Sedgh and colleagues concluded that the proportion of unsafe abortions rose from 44 percent in 1995 to 49 percent in 2008, the last year for which statistics were available and studied in the report. Sedgh acknowledged it was difficult to get an accurate number for unsafe abortions in particular and described their estimates as modest.

They used sources including official statistics, national surveys, and hospital records. To account for unreported abortions, they made adjustments and relied on information from other kinds of studies, expert assessments, and surveys of women.

The research was published Thursday in the journal, Lancet.

Abortion rates were lowest in Western Europe — 12 per 1,000 — and highest in Eastern Europe — 43 per 1,000. The rate in North America was 19 per 1,000. Sedgh said she and colleagues found a link between higher abortion rates and regions with more restrictive legislation, such as in Latin America and Africa. They also found that 95 to 97 percent of abortions in those regions were unsafe.

The authors defined unsafe abortion as any procedure done by people lacking needed skills or in places that don't meet minimal medical standards. Sedgh said some women in Africa resort to using broken soda bottles or taking strong doses of medicines or herbal drugs to induce abortions.

"It is precisely where abortion is illegal that it must become safer," wrote Beverly Winikoff and Wendy R. Sheldon of the Gynuity Health Projects in New York, in an accompanying commentary.

Experts said increasing birth control options for women in poor countries, like providing long-acting implants, would make a big difference.

"Wherever we have made better contraception available in the countries where we work, hundreds of women will walk hours to get it," said Dana Hovig, CEO of Marie Stopes International, a family planning organization. He was not connected to the study.



Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/19/abortions-are-more-common-in-countries-that-outlaw-them/#ixzz1jvxcau77

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Snagged from Nox's FB post.

Abortion law blocked by judge

http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Abortion-law-blocked-by-judge/SzqQ1tkUckOwgi0lJJ_h8g.cspx

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma County judge has permanently blocked a state law that requires women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before prior to the abortion.

District Judge Brian Dixon handed down an order Wednesday ruling that the law is unconstitutional and unenforceable. The order says the statute passed in 2010 is an unconstitutional special law because it addresses only patients and physicians concerning abortions and not other medical care.

Enforcement of the law has been blocked since shortly after Nova Health Systems, operator of Reproductive Services of Tulsa, challenged its constitutionality in May 2010. It would have forced a woman seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound, have the image placed in front of her and then hear it described in detail.

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Snagged from Nox's FB post.

Abortion law blocked by judge

http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story/Abortion-law-blocked-by-judge/SzqQ1tkUckOwgi0lJJ_h8g.cspx

Okay, so I'm slow at getting it over here. 

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http://wonkette.com/503128/oklahoma-state-senate-bill-employers-aint-gotta-insure-contraceptives-because-women-are-meant-to-be-mommies 
CALL OF MATERNAL DUTY: BLECCH OPS  3:29 PM FEBRUARY 26, 2013
OKLAHOMA STATE SENATE BILL: EMPLOYERS AIN'T GOTTA INSURE CONTRACEPTIVES BECAUSE WOMEN ARE MEANT TO BE MOMMIES


Oh, hey, here's a new twist on an old story! You already know how having to pay for insurance coverage for birth control is a violation of an employer's sacred right to tell employees how to live, but a genius state Senator in Oklahoma, Clark Jolley (R-Not All That Jolly) has just placed himself in the race for Wonkette Legislative Shitmuffin of the Year by introducing yet another bill that that would allow employers to opt out of covering slut pills.
Read more at http://wonkette.com/503128/oklahoma-state-senate-bill-employers-aint-gotta-insure-contraceptives-because-women-are-meant-to-be-mommies#RkqId3oDFTsDsrvY.99
The opt-out isn't a new idea, but the justification is truly novel: Jolley says he introduced the bill at the request of a constituent, Dr. Dominic Pedulla, of Oklahoma City. Pedulla is a cardiologist, but bills himself as "a natural family planning medical consultant and women's health researcher" and contends that contraception "suppresses and disables" women's true nature:
"Part of their identity is the potential to be a mother," Pedulla said. "They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn't bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies."
We know we are somewhat stepping on the line of regular commenter Callyson here, but, Oh, for love's sake.
Dr. Pedulla complained to Sen. Jolley after he found that all small group health plans in Oklahoma required coverage for contraception and sterilization. Rather than pointing out to Pedulla that the insurance plans did not require that he personally get sterilized, despite the obvious benefits to the state and humanity, Jolley instead said, hey, you know what? People with dumb religious convictions should be allowed to make their employees suffer for them! So he introduced this idiotic bill, which passed the Senate Business and Commerce Committee without debate last week, and will now go to the full state Senate.
In a masterful stroke of Wingnut Logic, Pedulla presented as evidence the argument that "Studies show that women using contraceptives consider pregnancy more unwanted than wanted," which is clearly a result of The Pill making ladies think crazy anti-pregnancy thoughts, not merely the sort of thing that a person who already doesn't want to have a baby might say.
Critics of the legislation pointed out that women who have a harder time getting access to birth control are probablyu more likely to experience unwanted pregnancies and thus seek abortions, and then, realizing that they were saying this in goddamned Oklahoma, decided to just drink and pound their heads against their desks.
[Tulsa World via DailyKos]

Read more at http://wonkette.com/503128/oklahoma-state-senate-bill-employers-aint-gotta-insure-contraceptives-because-women-are-meant-to-be-mommies#RkqId3oDFTsDsrvY.99