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Roe v Wade gives the woman a right to choose to abort a child for whatever reason during the whole 9 months of pregnancy. Partial Birth Abortion has been banned at the federal level but Arkansas passed a partial birth abortion ban earlier this year headed by a democrat because of concern that democrats at the federal level may try to reverse the federal ban. Also, see North Dakota follows South Dakota and passes bill requiring abortionist to inform women that "the abortion will terminate the life of a..living being" and Minnesota approves $4.7 million to award 37 life affirming organizations for both the health of the unborn and pregnant women for some other recent victories in the last month or so.
Now Oklahoma passes a ban on sex-selection abortions and a bill which will allow for better reporting information about abortions done in their state. Oklahoma already this year passed another pro-life bill that allows a woman to use force to defend her unborn child.
"Mary Spaulding Balch, an attorney who handles state legislative matters for the National Right to Life Committee, said the bill is important and urged other states to adopt similar legislation.
"It is unfortunate, even in this enlightened age of women, that many cultures here and abroad favor males over females. All over the world, millions of females are missing due to sex selection abortions," she told LifeNews.com. "We congratulate Oklahoma for taking this courageous stand against this invidious discrimination against women by banning the practice of sex selection abortions in Oklahoma."
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She called the abortion reporting portion of the bill the "most comprehensive reporting law in the nation."
"Hopefully the information gleaned from this reported information will help us determine some of the reasons women think they need to kill their babies so that we might address those needs and save lives," Balch said.
The bill was a priority for Oklahomans for Life and its director, Tony Lauinger, told LifeNews.com it would abortion-facility compliance with existing abortion statutes.
Lauinger says abortion advocates like to talk about how they want to make abortion "safe, legal and rare" and he tells LifeNews.com that the bill "is needed to measure the accuracy of that claim."
"Complications from abortion, especially, are seldom reported, and the extent of the damage abortion does to women's health is not known," he said."
