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" Liberals across the nation are freaking out about Oklahoma&amp;#039;s harsh new anti-abortion bills. A typical headline: Holy @#$%! New Oklahoma law makes it legal for doctors to lie ...  But few people seem to have dug into the weird details. For example, the first bill says that if a doctor doesn&amp;#039;t show a woman her ultrasound and the woman has the baby, she can sue him. Here&amp;#039;s the description from The Oklahoman newspaper: A doctor who does not comply with the ultrasound requirement can be sued by the woman seeking an abortion; the patient&amp;#039;s spouse, parent, sibling or guardian; or another health care provider.  But the second law says that if the doctor &amp;quot;omits information,&amp;quot; that encourages the woman to refuse the abortion \u2014 and then she can&amp;#039;t sue him. Here&amp;#039;s the description: Protects a health care provider from a lawsuit if their omission of information about the health or condition of an unborn child &amp;quot;contributed to the mother not having obtained an abortion.&amp;quot;  Now, I&amp;#039;m generally sympathetic to law-abiding enemies of abortion. It&amp;#039;s a matter of life and death, and they&amp;#039;re right to take it seriously. But the level of state intrusion over individual freedom in these new laws is truly startling, and wide-reaching. If you&amp;#039;re bleeding to death, for example, in the midst of &amp;quot;a medical emergency,&amp;quot; then the state foregoes its demand that you view the ultrasound image \u2014 but the doctor is required to place a written certificate detailing the medical emergency in your file and keep it there for no less than seven years.  If I were the kind of blogger who polices hypocrisy \u2014 a temptation I try to resist as often as I can \u2014 I&amp;#039;d be screaming about a &amp;quot;government takeover&amp;quot; of health care right about now.  Also, as state Sen. Andrew Rice pointed out, Oklahoma just eliminated the budget for prenatal care at an Oklahoma City school for teen mothers. &amp;quot;These girls did what we wanted them to do,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;They had their babies. Are we going to find the money to enable them to take care of unborn babies and babies when they&amp;#039;re born?&amp;quot; Fortunately, the chances of these laws surviving legal review are pretty damn slim. In the meantime, another weird detail in the law may give us all comfort: When the doctor shows the woman an ultrasound of her fetus, the state allows a woman to &amp;quot;avert her eyes.&amp;quot; And who says Oklahoma isn&amp;#039;t compassionate? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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