Wrongful Birth Bill in Arizona

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It is funnier once you consider that the same legislations that are pushing these laws to withdraw information from women are also the ones using arguments such as "A woman needs to have all information available before making a decision" to make laws that impose penetrative intervention to examine a fetus before letting a woman decide to take an abortion.
http://skepchick.org/2012/03/women-dese ... they-dont/

Ah yes, the whole "Make her see the fetus before the abortion" thing. As if the woman was too dumb to realize there was a baby growing in her...

The new hippocratic oath: Thou shalt do no harm, unless the Republicans think it's, you know, politically expedient.

I swear, the Republicans are beyond parody.

Well, they ran on a pack of lies about health care. It was a campaign based on hysteria. And once elected in states across the country this is the kind of agenda they've pushed. Far, far crazy right stuff that has little to do with what they ran on.

At the national level the congressional Republicans have backed off of repealing PPACA (Obamacare) and their Presidential candidate will be the godfather of PPACA. It was never really about that.

While I am pro-choice, I will say that I hope this law does not go through for other reasons. It basically opens up the door ethically on whether doctors can and cannot make medical decisions (basically this law would give them the right to make decisions for pregnant women by lying to them in this case) for the patient without letting them have any say whatsoever. However, it could do more than just that. If this passes and 20 years from now doctors can lie to pretty much anyone about anything related to their care in any state, it could cause some serious problems. For example: If you went in to, say, get tested for AIDS and the doctor told you they came back either positive or negative (depends on what they actually were) when in reality the results were the opposite of what they had said (and I'm talking about a deliberate lie here, not negligence), it could really make a huge difference in whether you live or die. Similarly, if a pregnant woman is lied to on purpose by her doctor about prenatal test results, it could make a difference in (if she chooses to continue the pregnancy) whether she is prepared to raise that child and meet its future needs. The Hippocratic oath of "First, do no harm" exists for a reason. For the sake of medical ethics, I hope this doesn't become law.

Doctors do that already. This just would give them a pass to do it even more.

I'm ethically against abortion but I think this idea is ridiculous and disgusting nonetheless. What's next, are they gonna chop off the hands of women who have had abortions?

Will the women be allowed other information instead?

Like the religious beliefs and backround of the doctor they are to see?

Then she can chose whether she is to be treated respectfully as a fully intelligent human able to weigh up all the arguments herself, or if she wants to be treated as livestock.