Urging support for the measure, Right to Life Director Gayle Atteberry said doctors should be required to inform women of the potential medical risks associated with abortion. She said women currently are given only limited information about the procedure. This bill is going to offer a woman information about alternatives to abortion and fetal development, if she wants it. But opponents said the bill would force doctors to propagandize against abortion and that a provision requiring a 24-hour waiting period would be a hardship on women traveling long distances to find an abortion provider. Barbara Arnold of Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwest Oregon said the measure's real intent is to erect barriers to keep women from having abortions.
Women come to the right decisions on their own without it being legislated.