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Judge Terminates Ultrasound Abortion Law

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 19, 2009 8:17 AM CDT
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(AP) – An Oklahoma judge overturned a state law yesterday that required women seeking an abortion to receive an ultrasound and a doctor's description of the fetus. Oklahoma County District Judge Vicki Robertson said the law violated constitutional requirements that legislative measures deal only with one subject. She did not rule on the validity of the ultrasound provisions.

An assistant AG said she'll meet with state officials to discuss whether to appeal. The law was passed in 2008, but legal action has prevented it from going into effect. Nova Health Systems, the parent group of Reproductive Services in Tulsa, filed a lawsuit in October, arguing that the law was unconstitutionally vague and it was not clear what the doctor should tell women undergoing the ultrasound.

Zaditza Silveira is reflected in an ultrasound machine as she takes images of pregnant mothers at the Birthing Center of South Florida on October 12, 2006.
Zaditza Silveira is reflected in an ultrasound machine as she takes images of pregnant mothers at the Birthing Center of South Florida on October 12, 2006.   (Getty Images)
An undated photo of a simulated ultrasound probe.
An undated photo of a simulated ultrasound probe.   (AP Photo/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, HO)
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NewserScooter
Aug 20, 2009 4:49 AM CDT
And you have to show them a picture of each of the 20 million people freed from an opressive dictator!
alicia
Aug 20, 2009 2:45 AM CDT
my problem with abortion is that it is too freely used. i can see gettting an abortion, for rape, and things like that. but to kill an unborn life becuase you spread your legs with out protection and birth control, you should raise that child, or atleast give the poor child to an family that wants them who can't have their own. Also a "fetus" is a living human forming in you, it is murder! if you hit a pregnet woman you get charged with attempted murder, but when you get an abortion it is looked at differntly because the mother is deciding to leave the baby die. i know abortion is a hard decsison to make, a friend told me you can feel the baby leaving you if your far enough, i have no idea how some women do it three four times. i guess what i am tring to say is that i am for abortion, but at the same time we do need to put some limits to it. like a certian amount of abortions you can get until you have to get the "factory" shut down. to get back to the artical women should have the choose wether to see there baby or not. I know i would never be able to see a baby on a sonogram and kill them.
Mad
Aug 19, 2009 7:46 AM CDT
Correction: Not 8000... 2000. Just to be accurate (My bookmark for the source is now dark It's over 6 years old)

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