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Abortion records online are none of our business!
  1. Signatures
    379 out of 500
    Petitioning
    1. Rep. Frank Lucas (+ 7 others)
      Petitioning
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      • Rep. Frank Lucas (OK-03)
      • Sen. Tom Coburn (OK)
      • Rep. Dan Boren (OK-02)
      • Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04)
      • Rep. John Sullivan (OK-01)
      • Gov. Mary Fallin (OK-05)
      • Sen. James Inhofe (OK)
      • Gov. Brad Henry (OK)
  2. Created By
    Rodolfo Ibarra
    Kansas City, KS
About this Petition Petition Letter

In case you missed this story yesterday, yes it's true: Republicans in the state of Oklahoma are trying to mandate the collection and online publication of abortion medical records.

Here's a list of some of the items that will be published ONLINE if this law passes:

Date of abortionCounty in which abortion performed

Age of mother

Marital status of mother (married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)

Race of mother

Years of education of mother (specify highest year completed)

State or foreign country of residence of mother

Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother

Number of pregnancies that ended in live births

Number of pregnancies that ended in miscarriages

Number of pregnancies that ended in induced abortions

The law is intended to "prevent abortions" - not through accessible contraception or comprehensive sex education - but public shaming. Why not just add on another item on this horrific list that says, "Every woman who has ever had an abortion must wear a red A on their shirt" as well? Perhaps we can even get Nathaniel Hawthorne to rise from his grave and write a sequel to The Scarlet Letter.

Talk about government interfering with your privacy. This is one of the most absurd legislative attacks on women I've ever seen. It disgusts me that Republicans are actually considering this as a tactic to block women from having an abortion and move their anti-choice agenda forward.

Please let them know that the information they intend to put online is very private, and sensitive information.  Sign the petition today.

Recent Signatures

Stop the insanity!

Dear Representative

I am writing this letter to you today because the news is telling us that you plan to put abortion records online, this is truly disturbing. This is an assault on woman. Those records should be kept as confidential records as the information on those records is very sensitive. Most woman that have abortions do it for a very specific reason. We as the American people do not want to know that information as it is none of our business. Please I urge you, Don't make that information available to us online, we really do not want to know.

This is clearly an invasion of privacy. And it’s intended to be. It’s designed to frighten women away from having an abortion for fear that it will become known that they had the procedure done. Think, for example, of a frightened teenager, impregnated by an abusive father/stepfather/mom’s “boyfriend”. In a rural community, the data revealed would allow the male to figure out that she had an abortion. She could end up severely beaten, or dead. We can not allow this to happen, this is unconstatutional. Please put an end to this insanity! Today!

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