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"According to state estimates, the Oklahoma State Department of Health will spend roughly $250,000 a year to carry out the law.
"To spend a quarter of a million dollars on this is absolutely ridiculous," Stapleton says, adding, "Oh goodness, all the publicity over this has severely blighted the image of Oklahoma."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1969 drafted criteria for vital statistics around abortion to look at infant and maternal mortality in an effort to make the procedure safer.
The CDC's guidelines have long been considered the standard and "all the states pretty much follow that," says Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state abortion legislation for the Guttmacher Institute.
"You compare the law in Oklahoma to the CDC standard, and you see the law in Oklahoma goes far beyond what has been considered appropriate for vital statistics purposes," Nash says."
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Women and DR's will be forced to contribute data based on a 10 page questionnaire. The data will then be posted online. The legislators who drafted and passed the legislation are anti choice, avowedly so.
So I ask myself, what other medical procedure should require this level of "counseling?" Tubal Ligation? Vasectomy? Condoms, birth control? Organ transplant? If I were the women in this state, I would feel strongly that the state government does not believe for a hot second that I have the ability to make good choices about my own body. JMO.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/18/oklahoma.abortion/index.html
"According to state estimates, the Oklahoma State Department of Health will spend roughly $250,000 a year to carry out the law.
"To spend a quarter of a million dollars on this is absolutely ridiculous," Stapleton says, adding, "Oh goodness, all the publicity over this has severely blighted the image of Oklahoma."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1969 drafted criteria for vital statistics around abortion to look at infant and maternal mortality in an effort to make the procedure safer.
The CDC's guidelines have long been considered the standard and "all the states pretty much follow that," says Elizabeth Nash, who tracks state abortion legislation for the Guttmacher Institute.
"You compare the law in Oklahoma to the CDC standard, and you see the law in Oklahoma goes far beyond what has been considered appropriate for vital statistics purposes," Nash says."
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Women and DR's will be forced to contribute data based on a 10 page questionnaire. The data will then be posted online. The legislators who drafted and passed the legislation are anti choice, avowedly so.
So I ask myself, what other medical procedure should require this level of "counseling?" Tubal Ligation? Vasectomy? Condoms, birth control? Organ transplant? If I were the women in this state, I would feel strongly that the state government does not believe for a hot second that I have the ability to make good choices about my own body. JMO.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/18/oklahoma.abortion/index.html