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May. 2nd, 2008 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apharhttp://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/01/freedom_of_conscience/index.html
Oklahoma's Legislature just overruled the governor's veto and passed Senate Bill 1878, which requires, among other things, that doctors perform ultrasounds on all women who want to have abortions.
It forces women to have a procedure done that is not medically necessary (and since vaginal ultrasounds produce better pictures than abdominal ultrasounds in the early stages of pregnancy, this law would often require women to have additional medical instruments put inside them against their wishes). As such, it violates patients' rights to refuse treatment or testing.
Oklahoma's Legislature just overruled the governor's veto and passed Senate Bill 1878, which requires, among other things, that doctors perform ultrasounds on all women who want to have abortions.
It forces women to have a procedure done that is not medically necessary (and since vaginal ultrasounds produce better pictures than abdominal ultrasounds in the early stages of pregnancy, this law would often require women to have additional medical instruments put inside them against their wishes). As such, it violates patients' rights to refuse treatment or testing.
