Oklahoma: proud to be the most backward, RW extremist state in the nation

[ProSense]

New Oklahoma law will publicy post details of women’s abortions online.

On Nov. 1, a law in Oklahoma will go into effect that will collect personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and post them on a public website. Implementing the measure will “cost $281,285 the first year and $256,285 each subsequent year.” Here are the first eight questions that women will have to reveal:

1. Date of abortion
   
2. County in which abortion performed
   
3. Age of mother
   
4. Marital status of mother
   (married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)
   
5. Race of mother
   
6. Years of education of mother
   (specify highest year completed)
   
7. State or foreign country of residence of mother
   
8. Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother
   Live Births
   Miscarriages
   Induced Abortions

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[unhappycamper]

1. It must be the wind whipping down the plain.

What else makes one that stoopid? :shrug:

[jberryhill]

35. Nah, it's the bright golden haze on the meadow.... /nt

[Submariner]

2. Any of the Pro-Rape republicans from Oklahoma?

It would make sense that there knuckle-dragger pols would vote against Sentator Frankens bill.

[Captain Hilts]

4. I think only R women voted'for' - Kay Baily H, Ollie Snowe and Sue Collins. nt

[Mass]

8. 6 men voted for it as well, but none of them were from OK

Inhoffe and Coburn proudly voted against it.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00308

[niyad]

38. inhofe and coburn, of course

[Clio the Leo]

3. Will the men who cheated on their wives........

... in the process of creating these unwanted pregnancies also be outed?

[Uben]

5. Don't be ridiculous....

...that would invade their privacy.

[Captain Hilts]

6. The Holy Ghost sure is busy....nt

[uponit7771]

7. fuckin...w.....wow!!!!

[thunder rising]

9. $280K for a DB and a little Java ... I demand that contract!! At least don't give it to India

I mean if we're going to persecute American women at least give the proceeds to Americans (men?)

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. All the women forced to fill out the forms should

simply use the most favored tactic of GOP'ers and claim "I do not recall" to every question.

[Brickbat]

11. They do realize it's possible to miscarry without even knowing you're pregnant, right? So there's

really no point in asking?

And of course they put "mother" instead of woman. ARRRRRGH.

[Soylent Brice]

12. wow. what a bunch of crazy assholes. n/t

[Triana]

13. DUPE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6725066&mesg_id=6725066

[NikolaC]

14. Disgusting

I am kicking and reccing in hopes that more people see this post. It's traumatizing enough to have to go through that, but to have everyone know who you are is just damn sick and could be dangerous for the women on that list.

[Fresh_Start]

15. were is the information on the father?

isn't his age, marital status, race, years of education, residence, total number of children+abortions, etc equally relevant?

[avaistheone1]

22. We can't have that or all these politicians' names and their kids' names

would be showing up as the daddies on these birth certificates.

[kiranon]

29. Need his name, address, phone number and congressional district,

Also last known place of employment. How many past abortions paid for or requested. Is he up to date on his child payments to any and all moms out there actual and potential. This law must be overturned. More laws like this will be passed unless the laws take it to the fathers as well. If the birthmom to be doesn't know who the father is, let her list the potentials and let the potentials sort it out. Women and progressive men need to turn these laws on their head by making it as onerous for the dads as the moms. And,lastly, if the potentials need help sorting it out, make the arbitrators the wives and girl friends of the potentials sitting as a panel.

[damntexdem]

16. Wait just a damn minute there! Texas has claims on that title!

And Texas is bigger and pushier. And were last in healthcare coverage. Besides, it was the Texas governor who has really pushed the secessionist crap.

;-)

[juno jones]

25. Sorry OK is nuttier than TX.

When I lived in Amarillo, many of my friends were native OK'ers who couldn't stand how conservative OK was. So they moved to TX pan-freaking-handle, go figure.

TX will fuck you sideways if you're poor and then allow some stray nut with a 'legal' gun to shoot you. OK is much scarier because of the bible nuts involved in govt. Name your poison.

I speak only because I have bellied up to that bar, looking for jobs in all the wrong places. ;)

[NYC Liberal]

17. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond and Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa

Maybe THEIR most personal info should be posted online.

[Z_I_Peevey]

37. delete

[YoungAndOutraged]

18. Horrid

*shakes head* @ Oklahoma...

[livetohike]

19. What's next? They will all have to sew a red letter "A" on their

shirts? This is disgusting. Shame on those who made this a law.

[avaistheone1]

20. Shame, shame, shame on Oklahoma.

[NatBurner]

21. i'm sooo glad i moved outta that backwards-ass state

and to the forward-thinking, progressive mecca that is texas :/

[juno jones]

26. See my post #25.

I've known lotsa OK-born people in TX and CA and WA. They were all, well, OK. But most would never go home except to visit and they always seemed relieved to return to modern civilization.

[ampad]

30. Not to mention the racist.

Hubby is from OK and I am from MO. We live in WA state now and love it. You could not pay me to move back home, hell no. I can only visit for a week at a time. I'm sorry OK and MO DU'ers but I cannot stand those two states. Rural MO is pretty similar to OK.

[Ishoutandscream2]

23. Absolutely shameful. Shocking

Yes, I know it's Oklahoma, but I am shocked that this is taking place in our country. Shameful!

[xxqqqzme]

24. I hope this being challenged.

This is an outrage. How is this being justified?

November 1, 1650?

[a la izquierda]

27. Yep, our politicians are...

batshit crazy. Being a Democrat in Oklahoma is totally pointless, I think.

[Ikonoklast]

28. Doesn't this violate HIPPA?

A smart person using that information could deduce who the woman was.

[vaberella]

31. Holy Shit. Is there anyway to make this news viral?

I'm horrified by this. This needs to be publicized. This is more disgusting anything Bachmann could create in a group or alone.

[Jennicut]

32. Wow. A good friend of mine that I went to college with is so happy she moved from OK to CT

She said it was very poor and very backwards there and CT was totally an improvement. I feel for the women who live there who can't just leave. What an ass backwards law.

[Cali_Democrat]

33. SICK STUFF!!!

:grr:

[Lindsey]

34. I'm the student services director at a Medical career college in

North Hollywood, CA. I don't know how they could possibly do this because of the new HIPPA laws. It makes absolutely no sense and my understanding is that it's actually against the law.

[margotb822]

36. Trying to prove that racial minorities have more abortions or

that single women use it as birth control.

That's what I see...

[niyad]

39. I called the OK Dept of Tourism this morning and told them that we have called for a national

boycott of the state, as we did in SD. They hate women that much, they don't need any of our money, EVER.

I have friends there, who have been told that they have to come visit me-- I will not cross the border into that state.

I wonder how the male legislators would feel if we could pass a law that all men had to give dna samples, so that whenever a woman was pregnant, we would KNOW the sperm donor, and immediately start with the child support stuff.

[DuaneBidoux]

40. They should find out how many women get abortions because they have no health insurance.