Oklahoma Abortion bill vetoed for flaws, says governor

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Brad Henry vetoed a controversial abortion bill that would have required women seeking the procedure to report extensive personal information about themselves, his office announced Saturday.

Henry said House Bill 3284 had numerous flaws and would result in another expensive, and possibly futile, legal battle for the state.

The Statistical Abortion Reporting Act would have required women to provide extensive information that would be compiled into a report, which would appear on a state-run Web site without identifying the women. Supporters say the information is necessary to determine why abortions are sought and how to prevent them.

Information that a woman would have had to give included marital status, age, race, education, number of live births, number of miscarriages, number of induced abortions, type of abortion and reasons for the abortion.

Henry said he supported reasonable abortion restrictions but that House Bill 3284 had several flaws, including the lack of an exemption for rape and incest victims.

"By forcing rape and incest victims to submit to a personally invasive questionnaire and posting the answers on a state website, this legislation will only increase the trauma of an already traumatic event," Henry said. "Victims of such horrific acts should be treated with dignity and respect in such situations, as should all people."


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The people who want to "determine why abortions are sought so we can prevent them" are the same people who seek to restrict access to contraception in the name of "conscience," put abstinence-only sex education in the schools because if we tell kids not to do something often enough they won't want to do it, and keep removing Playboy Magazine from the military post exchange system because a child might go to someone's barracks room, see a dirty magazine sitting on a single soldier's nightstand, and suddenly decide he must have sex this very day.

I swear when I win the lottery I am going to buy every anti-porn, anti-sex fundamentalist in America a subscription to Screw Magazine because if those guys are so hell-bent on declaring everything in the world to either be "Christian Literature" or porn, they should know what genuine porn looks like.