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Oklahoma (4/27/10) - There are two new abortion laws in Oklahoma.
An abortion is when a woman is pregnant and decides that she is not ready to be a mother so she goes to the doctor and has an operation to terminate the fetus. These two laws affect the way women in Oklahoma would get abortions.
The first law is called Bill 2780. It says that before getting an abortion, the woman would have to get an ultrasound (a picture of the fetus) and then listen to the doctor describe the fetus while she looked at the picture.
The second law is called HB 2686. This law makes it ok for a doctor not to tell a pregnant woman about any birth defects in the fetus. This means that if the doctor could see that the baby was going to be born with something wrong, the doctor does not have to tell the parents about it.
These two laws make all the pro-life people very happy. These people believe that babies should be born no matter what.
These two laws make the pro-choice people very angry. Pro-choice people believe that women have the right to have abortions because women own their own bodies.
Questions:
1) Where did this story take place?
2) When did this story take place?
3) What is an abortion?
4) What does Bill 2780 say?
5) What does HB2686 say?
6) What do pro-life people believe?
7) What do pro-choice people believe?
8) What do you believe? Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Explain your answer.
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