In an attempt to threaten and scare women out of having abortions, Republicans in Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa) have created a new law that blatantly violates the state and federal constitutions, and requires physicians to provide the state with detailed personal information about women who have abortions.

Among the personal information this law will force doctors to disclose:

• Age
• Marital status
• Education level
• Number of previous pregnancies
• Reason for the abortion
• Method of abortion
• Method of payment
• Cost of the abortion
• Type of insurance
• Whether ultrasound was performed
• Nature of mother’s relationship with father

Here’s the full text of the new law (PDF), which goes quite a bit farther than previous reporting requirements in states such as Kansas. The law will disclose each individual form, not just bulk statistics, and it requires reporting of complications during procedures. It’s clearly designed as a tool to provide the radical anti-abortion right with propaganda points, as well as a tool to frighten women — since the information in the form could be used to help identify them.

And it’s also the first time a state has made sex-selected abortions illegal.

This is such an unconscionable intrusion into personal liberties and women’s freedom of choice, it will almost certainly be struck down in the lawsuits now being filed by several groups.

Tulsa World also notes that in addition to the governmental snooping into the private lives of women and their families, “implementing the measure will cost $281,285 the first year and $256,285 each subsequent year.”

How can the sponsors of this bill call themselves “conservatives?” This is nothing less than the creation of a religiously motivated nanny state in Oklahoma.

(Hat tip: erraticsphinx.)