Yes. Republicans in Oklahoma State are mandating the collection of information of abortion patients including their medical information and publicize them through the internet, which will include :
- Date of abortion
- County in which abortion performed
- Age of mother
- Marital status of mother (married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)
- Race of mother
- Years of education of mother (specify highest year completed)
- State or foreign country of residence of mother
- Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother
- Number of pregnancies that ended in live births
- Number of pregnancies that ended in miscarriages
- Number of pregnancies that ended in induced abortions
Now let's take a moment and analyze this issue. The intention of this law is to prevent abortion. Which is absurd in many ways because we all know that it is most important to distribute legitimate information and knowledge about using contraceptives and make it accessible to everyone! But I guess the way to go for them is by agonizing anyone who decides to take control of their own body and partake in abortion by publicizing it, and make it known how shameful it is???
I'm pretty sure that everyone knows that this is not the smartest thing in the world.
