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Celestial Fireflies

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:32 pm


If you haven't heard about it, here are a handful of links on it:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/07/okla_abortion/
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/08/oklahoma-abortion-online/
http://jezebel.com/5376502/new-oklahoma-law-will-put-details-of-all-abortions-online
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/oklahoma-abortion-law-det_n_313779.html

Basically, among other things, the law concerns collecting information on women who get abortions, including some very specific details about the procedure and the woman which nearly covers everything but name and address. This information is going to be published online (which will take almost 300k each year to keep up).

Those for the law claim that it doesn't violate a woman's privacy, because it's allegedly not specific enough to pin point who the woman is. Opponents of this law claim that the woman would be easily identified if she lived in a small town. So, what do you think?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:56 pm


That the information should be limited only to larger scale cities where there is little to no chance of actually identifying them and that if they do this for every town we will see a lot more murders and mysterious deaths/vanishings around the small towns. Hee hee

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:33 pm


Why do they need abortion info?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:58 pm


Kyoko364
Why do they need abortion info?

yeah
i was wondering the same thing

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:59 pm


Kyoko364
Why do they need abortion info?


To shame women into not getting abortions. Oklahoma has a strong history if doing this kind of thing.
PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:44 pm


Jester the Nightmare
That the information should be limited only to larger scale cities where there is little to no chance of actually identifying them and that if they do this for every town we will see a lot more murders and mysterious deaths/vanishings around the small towns. Hee hee


Personally, I don't think any of it should be published. I understand that some of the information may be of use to research looking more into why someone would get an abortion, but it does not need to be published online nor do I think the survey (this pdf has all of the questions) should be required.

Edit: Sorry, I was going to expand on why, but had to go. Anyways, as someone mentioned earlier, this law seems to be based upon shaming women and scaring them from getting abortions. I don't see why else the information would be required to be published online, where anyone could get to it. I definitely see how women, mostly the ones in smaller towns, can be targeted by abusive partners or family members who may be able to spot and match the information. :/

Celestial Fireflies

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:50 pm


They also don't ask anything about the father in the survey. If Oklahoma's trying to scare women out of getting abortions, they should also scare the father, because it takes a woman and a man to get the mother pregnant in the first place. stare
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