Zandar's Thought Of The Day

It no longer ceases to amaze me that Republicans on one hand will scream about health care reform and say the "government getting between you and your doctor" is unforgiveable and worthy of an armed revolution and how horrible that is, and then pass a law that actually does that whole government/doctor thing...but you know, only for women, because that doesn't count as fascism or whatever.

The Oklahoma Legislature voted Tuesday to override the governor’s vetoes of two abortion measures, one of which requires women to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion.


Though other states have passed similar measures requiring women to have ultrasounds, Oklahoma’s law goes further, mandating that a doctor or technician set up the monitor so the woman can see it and describe the heart, limbs and organs of the fetus. No exceptions are made for rape and incest victims.

A second measure passed into law on Tuesday prevents women who have had a disabled baby from suing a doctor for withholding information about birth defects while the child was in the womb. 

How nice.  The state mandates giving you a lecture before getting an abortion because anyone who chooses to do so must be too stupid to know the forces at play, especially the woman making the decision.  How noble of Oklahoma to inform these errant, mindless second-class citizens with their faulty girl brains of the argument against having this procedure done.

Better yet, how nice of Oklahoma to make it safe for doctors to lie to women about birth defects in the womb.  After all, preggo brains don't work right with their estrogen and their hormones and whatever, so decisions for them must be made by rock-ribbed Oklahoma men.  We'll just make it legal to withhold the information from them...they might want to choose to have an abortion, after all.  You can't trust anyone with a vagina, after all.  Not in our free society.

It's a good thing we have Oklahoma leading the way against medical fascism like Obamacare, too.  Can't have government making health care decisions for people, that's just wrong.  Making decisions for women on the other hand, well...who said women were people in Oklahoma?