Sounds reasonable, but....
Another Oklahoma abortion law was ruled Friday to be unconstitutional.The 2009 law was intended to prevent a mother from picking the gender of her child through abortions.
It made it illegal for a doctor to do the procedure if the doctor knew a woman’s sole reason was she wanted a baby of a different sex. Attorneys said worldwide most abortions done for gender reasons involve female fetuses.
Oklahoma County District Judge Dan Owens ruled Friday that legislators put into the law multiple subjects unrelated to its underlying purpose. He ruled the law violated a requirement in the state constitution that legislation cover a single subject.
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The law also would have required doctors to report detailed information about abortions to the state Health Department, including the age, marital status and education level of patients. An opponent of the law, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, said the requirements would have cost more than $250,000 a year to implement.
"The government has no business running a grand inquisition into the private lives of Oklahoma women,” said Jennifer Mondino, an attorney for the center, which filed the legal challenge to the law on behalf of two Oklahoma women.
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