{"id":546871,"date":"2010-04-28T23:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/oklahoma-to-implement-strict-abortion-measures-after-governors-veto-get-overridden\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T23:01:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T03:01:51","slug":"oklahoma-to-implement-strict-abortion-measures-after-governor%e2%80%99s-veto-get-overridden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546871","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma To Implement Strict Abortion Measures After Governor\u2019s Veto Get Overridden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Ultrasound_1961_19746263_0_0_2172_300.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma to implement strict abortion measures after governor's veto get overridden\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Just a few days after Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry vetoed two restrictive abortion measures, calling them &quot;unconstitutional intrusions into citizens&#8217; private lives and decisions,&quot; the state senate voted to override the vetoes, meaning the bills will become laws without the Democratic governor&#8217;s support. <\/p>\n<p>One of the measures forces pregnant women to undergo an ultrasound and receive a detailed description of the fetus just an hour before deciding whether or not to have an abortion, the <i>Washington Post<\/i> reports. The second bill prohibits expectant women from seeking damages in court if their physician withholds information regarding their pregnancy. <\/p>\n<p>The second measure, which was overwhelmingly supported in both the state House and Senate, is designed to prevent women from discriminating against fetuses with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;State policymakers should never mandate that a citizen be forced to undergo any medical procedure against his or her will, especially when such a procedure could cause physical or mental trauma,&quot; Henry said. &quot;To do so amounts to an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma governor, who vetoed similar legislation in 2008, also criticized the bills for not allowing exemptions for victims of rape and incest. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19746263-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19746263\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days after Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry vetoed two restrictive abortion measures, calling them &quot;unconstitutional intrusions into citizens&#8217; private lives and decisions,&quot; the state senate voted to override the vetoes, meaning the bills will become laws without the Democratic governor&#8217;s support. One of the measures forces pregnant women to undergo an ultrasound and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}