Our Rights to Privacy Don't Just Stop in Oklahoma
On November first, a law in Oklahoma will go into effect that collects personal details about every single abortion preformed in the state and post them on a public website. This will cost Oklahoma $281,285 the first year and $256,285 each year after that.
These details include the date of the abortion, the county in which the abortion was preformed, the age, race, and marital status of the mother, the years of education the mother has, the state or country of residence of the mother, the total number of previous pregnancies of the mother; including the number of live births, miscarriages, and induced abortions. (info via Feministing)
And these are only the first eight questions. I really honestly don’t understand the point of this. What does spending all this money to obtain this information even do for the state of Oklahoma? The Center for Reproductive Rights is challenging the law. Let’s hope that this ridiculous thing is thrown out.
This is a complete and total violation of women’s privacy. This isn’t just a law that’s being proposed, it is a law already. The state will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year just to put this information online. How is that worth the money? SERIOUSLY, OKLAHOMA GOVERNMENT!?!?!? What is the function of this? I can’t think of one way this will help out the population of the state as a whole.
The fact that this was even allowed to be signed into law shows that we need to speak up more often. We need to show that this is something that is truly important to us. Pro-choice means the freedom to make a private choice that only we can make. I’m taking this as an opportunity to create a call to arms – sisters of the world against our privacy being invaded, unite!<
What do you guys think? Are you as mad as I am?
