OK LAWMAKERS AND WOMEN ARE NOT BFFS

Props to the founding fathers for designing our government. No, it's not because we have the right to teabag in public spaces; it's because today the balance of power between the three branches prevented Oklahoma lawmakers from enforcing a silly, paternalistic law. A judge ruled this afternoon that a law requiring doctors to give women seeking abortions an ultrasound was unconstitutional. The law also required doctors to explain to the pregnant woman what she was seeing on the ultrasound because, you know, pregnant women don't already know they've got a human being inside them. The judge didn't really address abortion and ultrasound laws but struck down the law because legislators violated a rule when making it. Thanks to Reproductive Services in Tulsa and the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights for challenging the law.