An Oklahoma law set to go into effect on November 1 requires that demographic data about women who have abortions must be reported to the state health department, which will then post the data on a public website.
They claim that, since no names will be posted, it does not violate women's privacy. Opponents, who are trying to stop implementation of the law, say that in small communities it will be easy to identify women.
Data required to be reported are: date of abortion, county in which it was performed; age, marital status, race, and level of education of the mother, and total number of previous pregnancies.
I cannot think of any public health usefulness of posting this data on a public website. It can only be another attempt to shame and deter women who have a perfectly legal medical procedure.
I know that they think they are preventing the murder of actual children; but to me it is the creeping movement toward the theocracy that they would really like to turn this country into.
I am just as opposed to the murder of actual children as they are. We differ only in when we think an embryo becomes a human being.
Ralph
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