abortion details to be posted online.

Please keep in mind that we are not taking any particular stance on the abortion issue, but merely reporting current events pertaining to women's issues... but a new law (full text found here) will go into effect on November 1, 2009 in Oklahoma that requires women to divulge personal information as part of the abortion process. Though the lengthy questionnaire does not include any specific identifying information (like name, age, or address), opponents of the legislation argue that the information gathered by the questions is enough to identify a woman living in a small town.

I came across this issue in an explicitly biased Salon article, found here. (Again, keep in mind that provision of this link should not be considered as an endorsement of the claims/arguments made in the article.) Regardless of individuals' perspectives on the abortion issue, I think it is safe to say that this law will probably deter quite a few women from considering abortion as an option, if it turns out that they can be publicly identified through the results of such a survey.