new OK bill would put restrictions on IUDs and revoke the over counter status of Plan B, track women's abortions

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House Public Health Committee passed a bill Wednesday that its own author said needs major work before it is brought to a vote before the full House chamber.

House Bill 3216, also known at the Oklahoma Right To Human Life Act

"What this bill is attempting to do is maintain the bills the legislature has overwhelmingly passed over the past couple of years that got overturned by the Oklahoma Supreme Court by using their language," said Moore Republican Kevin West who authored the bill.

The bill is broken up into multiple sections:

Defining an emergency
Defining that life begins at conception
Requiring a doctor to submit the name of the patient who received an abortion, but that name would then be assigned a number for privacy reasons to be listed in a database maintained by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. That database could be used to see how many abortions a certain patient has received and when possibly over the course of her life. Only under a court order could those full medical records be released.
Within 30-days, a doctor would be required to submit a written justification under oath of why the abortion was performed and his or her rationale for declaring the emergency. False information would lead to a suspension of their medical license for one year.
There would be new restrictions placed on intrauterine devices (IUDs), especially ones used for contraceptive purposes.
Some contraceptive medications like Plan B and The Morning After Pill would have their over the counter status revoked, and it would only be made available if prescribed by a doctor first.

West said his bill was written in partnership with the conservative legal defense fund Alliance Defending Freedom, and he said after hearing committee members concerns on multiple sections, major changes to the bill would need to be made. He said he was open to addressing both Democratic and Republican concerns before the bill reaches the full House chamber next month.

All of Oklahoma's abortion clinics have been shuttered since the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobb's decision, but some lawmakers are still concerned people are freely having abortions within their home using medications they bought online or through other means that are mailed to them.

https://www.fox23.com/news/new-abortion-bill-would-also-restrict-contraceptives-iuds-and-create-an-abortion-database/article_16657b96-cba7-11ee-99fd-032cd643a12c.html

[hibbing]

1. Birth control is next n/t

[Hope22]

2. More and more doctors without degrees across this country!

So disgusting!

[MerryBlooms]

3. I would like to bring up something that I believe dovetails in this

conversation. Women being denied their medical choices, when it comes to female reproductive parts. When women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, or any other type of reproductive cancer, if they are of "reproductive" age, the doctors refuse to do full removal, even at the patient request. We won't do that, you might change your mind. My coworker had emergency surgery for ruptured ovarian cancer, total hysterectomy, day before yesterday. Less than a year, after they removed the one ovary, took part of her uterus, but wouldn't do what she wanted, which was totally removal of all, during that first surgery. Because, she's only 28, there's a chance, and blah blah blah. She almost died, all because women are never taken seriously in our reproductive health. We are patted on the head and told we don't know what is best for us, Me the Man doctor knows what's best for you, little girl. Fuck this!

[MerryBlooms]

4. My other gal is going to be gone with ocular melanoma

She opted for radiation rods, instead of eye removal. The docs caught hers early, so I'm hoping. My husband's was caught late, and he was dead in less than a year. It's been a bad week. With all my physicaldisabilities, the metal in my back from shouldertopelvis, neverexpectedtobethelast gal standingfor our guys. I just want my gals to be okay 😭

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. I'm sorry that you are experiencing these challenges. sending good vibes

[MerryBlooms]

10. Thanks so much. These gals need every positive vibe we can manage. 😘

[MerryBlooms]

11. I would like to remind folks who have loved ones in medicaid

Care, there is no backup for your loved one's caregiver. There is no automatic plan that kicks in. Caregivers scramble to find someone to cover shifts. Or, if we're lucky, a good casemanager helps us.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. it's like our ONLY value and purpose is producing babies

[xmas74]

13. My first oncologist refused to do a hysterectomy

He did bloodwork, no physical exam and said a CA125 of 10,000 was nothing to worry about. He said he'd schedule the ovary removal in a few months and to take tylenol for pain. He dismissed my claims of being in menopause yet bleeding for several months,sometimes at a level that was considered a hemorrhage.
My second gyn oncologist ran full tests, exams, etc and said something was definitely wrong. She had me in surgery 2 weeks later, recognized I had 2c ovarian cancer and stage 4 endometriosis and removed everything. She said if I'd waited any longer the cancer would have metastasized.

[Desert grandma]

5. Grrrr!!! These people are f'n NUTS!

It would not surprise me if Kevin West, who authored this bill, has all kinds of issues in his own past. Why the hell do these white so called "christian" men think they should have authority over a woman's body? Oklahoma is having its own problems with the tribal nations there. My adopted daughter and son are members of the Cherokee Nation and receive the tribal paper. The last issue highlighted the dispute between Principal Chief Chuck Hoskins of the Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma Gov. Stitts. Stitts is a member of the Cherokee Nation but he sure has tried to limit tribal sovereignty. Oklahoma has opted out of the food program for kids this summer and the Tribal Nations have opted in. So much for family values and "right to life". I guess food doesn't count.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/oklahoma-rejected-a-summer-food-program-for-kids-these-tribes-opted-in

[Timeflyer]

8. Bet they'd like to require mandatory female pelvic exams by government representatives, whenever, just because.

But only if they get to observe. Important that women remember--only fetuses have rights. And male GOP politicians.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Alliance Defending FREEDOM

A less apt name would be hard to come up with.

[pansypoo53219]

12. its still sharia even if they are talibornagains.

tho islam is ok w/ abortion.