Oklahoma recently passed a law requiring that abortion providers fill out a 10-page questionnaire for each procedure, and that details of abortions be posted on a public Web site!
This extensive questionnaire - which includes the reason the procedure was sought - is not only an affront to women's rights, its detailed nature may allow women in small towns to be identified, violating their privacy and potentially jeopardizing their life and livelihood.
The law is being challenged as unconstitutional in court and will not go into effect before December. Over the next several weeks, we must send a strong message that we won't let Oklahoma serve as a testing ground for extreme anti-choice legislation nationwide!
Sign the petition letter to the law's author, Senator Todd Lamb, and stand up for women's right to reproductive choice.
We took action on “Express Outrage Over Oklahoma's Law that Posts Personal Abortion Data Online!”:
# 3,932:
1:50 pm PST, Nov 20,Valerie Hoffman, Illinois
# 3,931:
12:36 pm PST, Nov 20,June Harrison, New Jersey
# 3,930:
12:33 pm PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 3,929:
12:24 pm PST, Nov 20,Shannin Zevian, Iowa
This is outrageous! Your state should be embarrassed and so should you!
# 3,928:
11:37 am PST, Nov 20,Kerry Wood, Georgia
# 3,927:
11:26 am PST, Nov 20,Larry Mitchell, Alabama
# 3,926:
10:43 am PST, Nov 20,Nancy Shaar, North Carolina
# 3,925:
10:26 am PST, Nov 20,Kristin Fischer, Maryland
# 3,924:
10:07 am PST, Nov 20,Melissa Johnson, Illinois
# 3,923:
8:54 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, California
# 3,922:
8:28 am PST, Nov 20,Denise Alvera, Illinois
# 3,921:
7:19 am PST, Nov 20,Connie Oglesby, Iowa
# 3,920:
7:04 am PST, Nov 20,Stephen Weatherby, Georgia
To me, this is a total violation, of everyone's HIPPA RIGHTS. This is an evasion of confidentiality and privacy My adult son lives in your state, and I would be completely disgusted if personal information about a partner of his was posted online!
# 3,919:
6:15 am PST, Nov 20,Laura Djurinec, Croatia
# 3,918:
5:54 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Oregon
# 3,917:
5:11 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, South Carolina
# 3,916:
4:43 am PST, Nov 20,Eli Is Here, Pennsylvania
To me, this is a total violation, of everyone's HIPPA RIGHTS. Not only does it violate the actual persons rights, as a patient, but it violates my (as well as everyone else's) individual patient rights--- meaning__ I don't need to know.... don't care to know..... and don't want to know or hear what another patient is doing or not doing. The only time another persons health issues are made known to me... is if--- they tell me themselves!!!!!!....... How would the Senator like it if we-- the entire public nation-- knew every time he went to the bathroom?!!?..... OR ....... every time he masturbated?!!?..... I don't need to know that info, nor would I want to know it!!! They need to think about what they are doing---- maybe, someday, someone they know will end up on that listing.
# 3,915:
4:11 am PST, Nov 20,Chris Green, Florida
# 3,914:
3:10 am PST, Nov 20,Rodger Ricketts, Illinois
This is an evasion of confidentiality and privacy
# 3,913:
11:49 pm PST, Nov 19,Maria Westin, Sweden
# 3,912:
9:57 pm PST, Nov 19,Hazel PATTERSON, Texas
# 3,911:
9:17 pm PST, Nov 19,Valerie Plance, West Virginia
# 3,910:
7:19 pm PST, Nov 19,Brande Pickerel, Washington
# 3,909:
7:08 pm PST, Nov 19,Susan Englund, Florida
My adult son lives in your state, and I would be completely disgusted if personal information about a partner of his was posted online!
