This is unbelievable.

[Equ1n0x]

Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Its amazing that collecting this information shocks you guys, but scraping the fetus out of a woman.. Thats just freaking AWESOME! They should have 2 for 1 Abortion Happy Hours at Hospitals.

It's amazing that "scraping a live fetus out of a woman" means more to you than the women and men who made it happen. Do you want to explain that? More babble about God? I can't imagine that God has anymore to do with the right wing these days than the doctor that just takes care of them and says, "Well, they're still my patients. :sigh: "

 

[daishi5]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: daishi5

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: shiner
Just to be clear the data that will be posted will NOT include the names of individuals. Hell that's a HIPAA violation. What it will be is basically a statistical database.

Not that it makes it any better, but really it is nothing to get your panties in a wad over and is no different than posting births or deaths in the newspaper.

I'm curious, does the state of OK also maintain a public website for posting births and deaths?

I could be wrong, but I am almost completely certain that health care providers are required to collect data on births and deaths and report them to the state. In fact, I believe they are required to keep records of all the care they do. How else do you think they determine the rate at which premature babies are delivered based upon ethnicity, income and other things? In fact, the more I think about this the more ok I am with it because it seems to be similar to data collected on other health care procedures. It would help identify if certain parts of the population were more at risk to complications arising from the procedure.

Edit: Just thought of something else, if we collect data like this on live births, and then we allow abortions, why shouldn't we collect the same data? Abortions are an alternative end to a pregnancy, and this data can help control for the changes that abortions will cause in the numbers.

We're not talking about collecting data here, we're talking about publishing data.

They do publish that data, I just pulled up the chart in OK for live births by income, marital status and education level of the mother. Which seems to reinforce my point. We collect this information on live births, abortions will change the number of live births, therefore if we want to do the best job possible of understanding the change we need the same type of data.

Oklahoma State Department of Health

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: blanghorst

If you're ever going to be in Indianapolis, let me know so I can alert the authorities.

Alert the authorities for what?

I am in Indy quite a bit, I was just there a few weeks ago.