spanone (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-27-10 08:08 PM
Original message
oklahoma abortion law protects doctors from malpractice suits IF THEY LIE TO PATIENTS
Edited on Tue Apr-27-10 08:17 PM by spanone
The Oklahoma Legislature voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to override vetoes of two highly restrictive abortion measures, one making it a law that women undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before having an abortion.
Though other states have passed similar measures forcing women to have ultrasounds, Oklahoma’s law goes further, requiring a doctor or technician to set up the monitor where the woman can see it and describe the heart, limbs and organs of the fetus. No exceptions are made for rape and incest victims.
The second measure passed into law Tuesday protects doctors from malpractice suits if they decide not to inform the parents of a unborn baby that the fetus has birth defects. The intent of the bill is to prevent parents from later suing doctors who withhold information to try to influence them against having an abortion. [emphasis OP]
Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat, vetoed both bills last week. The ultrasound law, he said, was flawed because it did not exempt rape and incest victims and was an unconstitutional intrusion into a woman’s privacy. He painted the other measure as immoral.
“It is unconscionable to grant a physician legal protection to mislead or misinform pregnant women in an effort to impose his or her personal beliefs on a patient,†Mr. Henry said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/28abortion.html?re...
sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-27-10 08:13 PM
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1. The second is the most horrible thing I've ever heard of... to allow a doctor to NOT inform
parents of fetal birth defects! Can any human get any lower than that?
You tell me, Dr. Mengele.
spanone (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-27-10 08:29 PM
Response to Reply #7
9. abortion has been L E G A L in the u.s. since 1973. L E G A L
what other legal procedure puts women or men through such shit?????
Owning a business? Being white? Being Christian? Trying to vote in Philidelphia?
one_voice (313 posts) Tue Apr-27-10 08:37 PM
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12. Good Gawd...
Aren't these the same people screaming about the government getting between them and their doctor? Flippin hypocrites!
What part of abortion is legal in the U.S. don't they get?
I hope this gets overturned. It can't be legal. And they know it's wrong if they have to put a provision in that "protects" the doctors.
Yes, because the only good government is that which kills the genetically defective.
I'm looking at you, Trig Palin! (but fags are still safe)
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-27-10 08:40 PM
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14. Well, it is the state where not ONE county voted for Obama.
TX is liberal compared to that.
Ah yes. The ol' racists-also-oppose-eugenics angle.
spanone (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-27-10 08:43 PM
Response to Reply #14
15. this is way beyond politics...this is legislating morality....theirs.
May I thus infer your legislation has no morality to it?
spanone (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-27-10 09:05 PM
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17. a doctor can see birth defects, lie to a patient about it, then be protected by the state...
what ****ing country is this?
Not Germany c. 1936 or the USSR or the PRC, if you must know.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8226692Remember conservatives: YOU are the ones who supposedly most resemble the Nazis.
No, really.
