This is a clear exercise in the coercive power of the state for a narrow purpose. Under the guise of collecting health-care stats, these SOB’s are attempting to hassle the patients, burden the doctors, and generate, at taxpayer expense, a mass of data that can have no purpose other than to provide grist for the anti-abortionists’ mill. No matter WHAT data this thing would uncover, it would be exploited.

I’ll add, too, that part of this may be intended simply to make the whole thing so freakin’ burdensome for doctor and patient alike as to discourage the practice in the state altogether. That’s a hell of a lot of data being gathered, and I’m at a loss to understand what scientific purpose it could serve.