Posted on 04/27/2010 6:05:43 PM PDT by cpforlife.org
Today, the Oklahoma state legislature overrode Governor Brad Henry’s veto of two bills that will protect mothers and their unborn children. By separate 36-12 votes, both the Ultrasound bill (HB2780) and the Wrongful Birth/Wrongful Life bill (HB2656) cleared the Oklahoma Senate. Both bills cleared the override hurdle in the Oklahoma House of Representatives yesterday.
“This is a victory for the women of Oklahoma and their unborn children,” said National Right to Life Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D. “Abortion is a business: the less time spent with a woman, the less information given to her, the more sales made. This ultrasound law protects a mother’s right to know something about her developing unborn child.”
The ultrasound bill requires that before an abortion can be performed, an ultrasound must be performed and displayed so that the woman may view the image of her unborn child. The Oklahoma ultrasound law is the strongest, most protective law of its kind. Nineteen other states have enacted similar legislation that provides women the opportunity to view an ultrasound of their unborn children before an abortion.
“Ultrasound gives a mother a window to her womb. It helps to prevent her from making a decision she may regret for the rest of her life and it empowers her with the most accurate information about her pregnancy so that she can make a truly informed ‘choice’,” Balch added.
In passing Oklahoma’s wrongful birth/wrongful life bill, the legislature recognized that “the birth of a child does not constitute a legally recognizable injury,” and that legal action related to the birth of a child may not be brought “based on a claim that a person’s act or omission contributed to the mother’s not having obtained an abortion.”
The text of the ultrasound bill is available here http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/hb2780_engr.rtf.
The text of the wrongful birth/wrongful life bill is available here http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/hb2656_engr.rtf.
I’m glad to be in Oklahoma... :-)
But the pro-aborts think it’s good for an expectant mother to recieve NO info on an abortion she's contemplating.
Why is that?
Because informed consent is bad for business.
Latest stats there: 90+ % of the abortion minded women who had ultrasounds at the CPC and discussed with a counselor the baby they were seeing on the screen chose life.
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*In 1970, Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn observed:
“Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. Between them there is the closest, the most profound and natural bond: nothing screens violence except lies, and the only way lies can hold out is by violence.”
The more odious the violence, the greater the deceit is needed to justify it. Therefore, the defense of partial-birth abortion has required an inexhaustible store of lies.
*http://www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/programs/rlp//97rlpwil.shtml
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