CNN: Online posting of women’s abortion information challenged in Oklahoma
By Wayne Drash
“A judge could determine Friday whether to allow an Oklahoma law to go forward that will post information online about women who get abortions in the state — an act critics say would be harassment and an invasion of privacy.‘We don’t feel that the government should be able to run a grand inquisition into women’s private lives,’ says Jennifer Mondino, an attorney challenging the law on behalf of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights argues that the measure is unconstitutional and in violation of the state’s ‘single subject rule’ because it covers different aspects of abortion. The law also bars women from seeking abortions solely because of the sex of the fetus, with fines up to $100,000 for doctors who ‘knowingly violate’ it.’We are very committed from keeping the law from going into effect,’ Mondino says. ‘The law represents a very serious invasion of women’s privacy interests.'”
