ikesdad, Tahlequah (11/6/2009 1:47:31 PM)

a whole 70 people...wow! I wonder how many people would show up to support that bill? Lots more than that I bet. It the libs want this to be a numbers game we can do it that way. Let's say if we can get 71 to show then the bill goes into effect?

2ndjoyce, BA (11/6/2009 1:51:46 PM)

If I was a woman who made the decision to have an abortion and this law was in effect I would just refuse to answer. As an American I should have the right to not answer any personal question I don't want to.

Arbythree, Tulsa (11/6/2009 1:52:58 PM)

Ditto joyce!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoknew?, Tulsa (11/6/2009 2:26:23 PM)

You have to wonder how they come up with these house bills. Are there a couple of nitwits just sitting around thinking of how we can humiliate a woman? This is just one of the DUMBEST things I've seen in a few days.

tbgalileo, Tulsa (11/6/2009 2:28:29 PM)

ikesdad, no, it's not a numbers game. It's about people in this country having consitutional rights, and one of those rights is to make personal decisions about your own body without having the government mandate what you will and won't do with your reproductive organs. Personally, I don't think telling the government to back off personal decisions is a "lib" thing. And, as far as it goes, I would susupect that the majority are against this law in the first place, regardless of how many people show up for any given protest.

nan131, (11/6/2009 2:30:11 PM)

Nobody said they had to be honest. I know if someone asked a man the same questions when he has a vasectomy that would never go over at all.

Fighting Irish, South Bend (11/6/2009 2:33:13 PM)

right on Whoknew. It was a terrible idea to even introduce it, much less pass it.

and

I guess it depends on your view if having a protest is OK.

FromTheHeart, (11/6/2009 2:49:33 PM)

nan131...what is your point to compare a vasectomy (a procedure designed to prevent pregnancy) and an abortion (a procedure that murders an unborn child). if you want to compare a vasectomy to purchasing condoms or purchasing birth control pills that is one thing but when you have a pulsing heart and a life that you are carrying inside your body...God and God alone has the authority to take that life away. Abortion is not a form of birth control.

I wish women would get it thru their heads, they DO have a choice. They can choose to keep their pants zipped and their legs together.

psychedelikrelik, Tulsa (11/6/2009 3:29:22 PM)

Way to exhibit your misogynistic tendencies and lay it ALL off on the woman, FromTheHeart.

Branny, (11/6/2009 4:59:27 PM)

The only thing that has been proven to lower the number of abortions is increased education and access to contraceptives.

Countries where abortions are not restricted have actually decreased the number of abortions per capita while the opposite is true in countries where abortion is illegal.

Our lawmakers don't care whether they stop abortions, they only want to drum up support from the fanatics that don't know the difference between a zygote and a fetus. If they truly wanted to stop them, the same lawmakers would not be also passing laws that restrict access to contraception.

If you are some of the poor folks that actually believe the rhetoric of the far right fanatics, I feel sorry for you. Unfortunately, that doesn't help the woman who has been raped or the child who was molested and now finds themselves pregnant and without resources therefore forced to carry the fetus to term.

Evidently in Oklahoma, the stupid are inheriting the earth.

Elusive, the burbs (11/6/2009 5:01:34 PM)

True Joyce but then they would refuse the abortion. If more women had known they would have been there as well.

If you do not want an abortion or believe in them simple: don't get one. Other who choose should not be put through this invasion of privacy or ridiculed by others. It's simply none of your business.

Elusive, the burbs (11/6/2009 5:22:09 PM)

The truth is many men will not use the glove.

truth fairy, (11/6/2009 5:51:33 PM)

Why do republicans always lie about their intent?
We know what the purpose of the law is,
To publicly shame women that have abortions,
Intimidate others that might seek one,
And to blatantly political pander to anti-choice voters.

J C OK, Tulsa County (11/6/2009 6:38:39 PM)

Elusive, if the guy doesn't want to use the so called "glove" he doesn't get what he wants. The best way to avoid pregnancy is to use good birth control and keeping your pants on and that includes both male and female.

Thunder196, Tulsa (11/6/2009 7:22:16 PM)

If you didn't answer questions, you would not be getting the abortion. No one knows if you are telling the truth or not.
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Thunder196, Tulsa (11/6/2009 7:22:24 PM)

Why should a woman have to be submitted to this in the first place. Should never have to lie or give personal information about herself.

Elusive, the burbs (11/6/2009 8:01:44 PM)

I agree JC OK but I think that's how the cookie crumbles sometimes, both make that decision to make a mistake "in the moment" and then it happens, pregnant.

jsludge, tulsa (11/6/2009 8:05:53 PM)

people like sex. men and women. you can say all this about people keeping their pants on, but it's not going to happen. it's the way things have always been. Should people be careful? Yes. But you have to fight against hard-wired instincts which doesn't always work out for the cold, reasoning mind.

The Oklahoma government shouldn't pass unconstitutional laws; they should mind their own business instead of trying to cram the beliefs of some people down everybody's throat.

The A Team, (11/6/2009 9:24:50 PM)

If men could get pregnant, abortions would be a drive-thru procedure.

2ndjoyce, BA (11/6/2009 9:29:48 PM)

haha, A Team. I've always said if men had to endure the horrors of mammograms with a certain beloved part of their body, mammograms would be more humane, too!

Elusive, the burbs (11/6/2009 10:30:31 PM)

You got that right A Team and I've always said the same thing Joyce, put it in a vice and they will sound like they did when they were 10, a soprano.

Pymalove, (11/7/2009 8:53:51 AM)

Oklahoma needs to stay out of my uterus' business.

2ndjoyce, BA (11/7/2009 10:37:19 AM)

Any man who says 'women you wouldn't do' is not a man I'd do anything with, either.

I'm Reliable, (11/7/2009 12:13:24 PM)

The Republicans always want smaller less intrusive government but they authored and passed this bill which is exactly the opposite. It creates more very personal intrusive government.
Republicans only want smaller government when it benefits them!!

Royce, Tulsa (11/7/2009 2:02:57 PM)

What is it about killing tiny babies that has you Democrats so mesmerized?

Lotsa folks think that babies are absolutely adorable.