RSSAbortion law requiring ultrasound struck down
From: The Washington Times | August 19, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday overturned a state law that required women seeking an abortion to receive an ultrasound and a doctor’s description of the fetus. Oklahoma County District Judge Vicki Robertson said the law violated constitutional requirements that legislative measures deal only with one subject. She did not rule on the validity of the ultrasound provisions. Her ruling also overturned other provisions in the law, which also allowed doctors and other health care providers to refuse to take part in an abortion for moral and religious reasons; required certain signs to be placed in clinics where …
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