On Tuesday a judge in Oklahoma overturned a law passed in 2008 requiring doctors to give women seeking abortions an ultrasound and describe the fetus to them. This law took away a woman's right to choose to have the ultrasound or not, making it mandatory. If a woman seeking an abortion did not have the ultrasound, she could not have the abortion. Not only was this law really screwed up in terms of a woman's right to her own body and her right to refuse medical procedures, but it also messed with doctor-patient relationships.

Although the judge overturned this law, the ruling was based on constitutional requirements that legislation only deal with one subject, and not on the validity of the ultrasound provisions, which means pro-life lawmakers in Oklahoma can, and probably will, find ways to write a new law requring this type of bogus, forced ultrasound again.

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