Oklahoma attorney general appeals ruling striking down ultrasound law
June 26, 2012
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Attorney General Scott Pruitt has appealed a court ruling that struck down a law requiring women to look at an ultrasound image and to listen to a description of the fetus before obtaining an abortion.[1]
Oklahoma District 7 Judge Bryan C. Dixon ruled that the ultrasound law is unconstitutional in a March decision.[1] In the opinion, he called the law an unconstitutional special law because it "improperly is addressed only to patients, physicians and sonographers concerning abortions and does not address all patients, physicians and sonographers concerning other medical care where a general law could clearly be made applicable."[2]
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which challenged the law, described Pruitt's appeal as "a continued assault on women's rights."[1] A spokeswoman for Attorney General Pruitt says that the ultrasound law is about informed consent.[3]
In the appeal, Attorney General Pruitt is asking that the Oklahoma Supreme Court overrule the lower court's ruling and allow the law to take effect.[2]
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