Regardless of your stance on abortion, there's one thing you can't argue – it's been a constitutionally protected right in the U.S. since 1973.
As we know, that really doesn't matter to the right-wing Derplahoman lawmakers in the Oklahoma legislature. Each year, these freedom-loving patriots go out of their way to introduce ridiculous unconstitutional legislation that does nothing but infringe on people's rights, waste taxpayers money, and remind people and businesses why they should never move here.
2017 isn't any different. As usual, several lawmakers have introduced archaic, nanny-state legislation that would limit or interfere with a woman's right to undergo a totally legal medical procedure.
One of the bills is HB 1549. It would ban abortions because of a diagnosis of Down Syndrome or genetic abnormality of an unborn child. The other bill is HB 1441. This dandy would require a father to consent to an abortion, because you know, men should totally be able to tell women what they can or can't do with their own body.
The only thing dumber than the bills themselves is what some of our lawmakers have to say about them. Here's what Justin Humphrey, the author of HB 1441, had to say in an interview with The Oklahoman: