Abortion provider says complying with new Okla. ultrasound law leaves some patients emotional
By Tim Talley, APWednesday, April 28, 2010
Clinic: New Okla. abortion law hard on patients
OKLAHOMA CITY — The manager of an Oklahoma abortion clinic says the requirements of the state’s new law have been difficult for some patients to handle.
Reproductive Services of Tulsa director Linda Meek said Wednesday the clinic is complying with the law requiring women to have an ultrasound and hear a detailed description of the fetus before getting an abortion. Meek says some patients have left the ultrasound room in tears, but none has canceled an abortion.
The law took effect Tuesday, when the state Senate overrode Gov. Brad Henry’s veto of it.
The clinic is part of a legal challenge to the law, with a hearing set for Monday. Supporters of the measure say it is an attempt to save the lives of unborn children and prevent psychological trauma to pregnant woman.
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May 13, 2010: 6:56 pm
Interesting how the abortion clinic operator says that nobody cancelled their abortions after seeing their abortions but numerous studies have shown that when women see ultrasounds prior to an abortion or when abortion minded, they usually choose to keep their baby alive. Abortion advocates often play loose with the truth. NARAL founder Bernard Nathansan, an abortion doctor himself, admitted that NARAL simply made up its facts on illegal abortions, claiming that 7,000 women a year died of illegal abortions in the USA and millions were having them illegally. In the first two years of legal abortion barely 500,000 had them though and while that number gradually increased , it certainly showed no pent up demand for it. Also only 32 women died of illegal abortions in the year prior to legalization, roughly the same number died the next year when it was legal. |
John