The Latest Assault on Women -- in Oklahoma

Oklahoma has invented a new way to demean, insult and assault women. It's a law aimed at any woman who seeks an abortion. She can have the abortion all right. But first she has to have a long counseling session with her doctor. This is to prevent the bubbleheaded bimbo from doing anything rash. And we all know that all women are essentially bubbleheaded bimbos who can't be trusted to make up their own minds about anything without a long session of "counseling" from some doctor, probably a man who is against the idea of abortion altogether, no matter what the circumstances. And no matter what the bubbleheaded bimbo really wants and needs.

For example maybe she's been raped. Well, no matter, she needs counseling anyway before she commits murder in her womb. Or maybe she's single and poor and can't take care of a baby. Or maybe giving birth would actually endanger her life. Never mind that, God and the Oklahoma Department of Health both say she should take the risk.

First, she has to sit through the counseling session, a long, boring, drawn-out counseling session. And after that if she actually decides on an abortion anyway, if she can find a doctor to do it, she has to answer a list of questions. Here they are.

• Date of abortion
• County in which abortion performed
• Age of mother
• Marital status of mother
• Race of mother
• Years of education of mother
• State or foreign country of residence of mother
• Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother

And a bunch of other intrusive queries. The list of questions and her answers will be published on the Internet. Anyone with half a brain (and I am sure there are plenty of those in Oklahoma) will be able to figure out just who in their small town went seeking an abortion.

So much for privacy and the ability to make difficult decisions without everyone in town knowing who you are and what you are up to.