I'm horrified. I have also just donated to OK Planned Parenthood and posted the story in Facebook in the hopes that might make some small difference.
askye, dammit, I'm so sorry. This is so not what you need right now.
Aims, GO YOU! You rock!
Hil, your interview sounds really promising!
ETA:
I want to live in a place where people who love each other can get married no matter what. I want to raise my daughter in a place where her brain is respected enough that her choices are respected. I want textbooks to teach history not pedantics. I want the entire conservative movement to experience a radical sex and color change (for starters) for a year without their retirement accunts so they can actually walk in someone else's shoes and not just bitch about how expensive and unworthy of the wearer they seem to be.
I want to be Sox.
how is that even HPIAA compliant?
Apparently, a woman's rights are just subsumed totally by a fetus. We are, after all, just walking incubators. As long as a birth happens, the woman or the welfare of the fetus after it sucks outside air are of no importance -- the ability to suck the air takes total and utter precedence.
And letting doctors decide what to tell or not tell a patient as to affect possible decisions that they may or may not back, to let a doctor's ideology take precedence -- that's a slippery fucking slope. What's next -- not telling gay HIV patients, so they won't get medication, and die sooner, because a doctor doesn't believe in homosexuality? Not disclosing a brain tumor to an Arabic patient because you think they're a terrorist?
Where's the fucking Hippocratic oath? Where's the basic medical ethics 101 info? Where's the basic goddamned humanity?
Askye, oh no! I am sorry to hear that! Heal quick-ma, and don't come back-ma to you.
Feh. Feh, I say.
Oh, no, askye, I'm sorry!
I find the second law, the one protecting doctors who decide to withhold information about the fetus, to be a much bigger problem.
I don't know about much bigger, but it does feel like just as huge a problem, for a whole different set of horrifying reasons. It's really just fascinating, how much disregard and utter contempt for women both bills show, in such different but complementary ways.
I only wish I had ever planned to visit Oklahoma for any reason at all, so that it would mean something to boycott it.
See, and the thing is, I think it would be totally interesting to gather statistics on why women are choosing abortion, and use that to try to get the rate of abortions down, if that's what you want to do--Is it that they are experiencing birth control failure? Need more contraception? Need access to the morning after pill? IS someone terminating due to a diagnosis of the fetus? Etc etc. But gather in bulk, not all "oh, a 27 year old married woman in tiny city got one last week! Wonder who THAT was.."
I am increasingly furious that the same demographic who insist on this shit is the same demographic that wants decreased funding for early childcare assistance in any and all forms. They care about the living until they can breathe on their own. After that, it's a big "FUCK YOU!"
Kinda like a prolife governor with a pregnant teenage daughter slashing funding for homes for unwed mothers? Yeah, it's a lot like that.
Good point, meara. I think that information should be used to help girls and women make responsible, healthy choices, and stats and research that would be gathered with respect towards privacy (and, yo, medical ethics) is just fine. Let's work towards making contraception healthier, more user-friendly and safe; let's focus on education and decision-making; let's work towards empowering women and men, girls and boys, on being healthy and happy.
This legislation does NOT work towards that end.
Sorry for all of the swearing. Well, I am not sorry, but if it's uncool to swear this much on b.org, I trust you'll tell me.
