It's like they just can't help themselves.

OKLAHOMA CITY—The Oklahoma Senate approved several bills Monday that opponents say would make it more difficult or uncomfortable for women to get abortions, including one that would require women seeking the procedures early in their pregnancies to undergo an invasive form of ultrasound...[The law] would require doctors to use a vaginal probe in cases where it would provide a clearer picture of the fetus than a regular ultrasound.

Oklahoma is one of the few states in the nation that already requires a woman seeking a legal medical procedure to undergo an ultrasound before having said legal medical procedure, whether she wants to or not. But that's not enough for the legislators of Oklahoma, so they want to make sure she has to look at a really, really good picture of the fetus before undergoing a legal medical procedure. For her own good, of course. Even if it's completely unnecessary, invasive, and painful.

That's how much they care about women down in Oklahoma.

"You're going to force someone to undergo an invasive medical procedure," objected state Sen. Andrew Rice, D-Oklahoma City, who voted against the bill. "You have to invasively put an instrument inside the woman. This could be your 15-year-old daughter who was raped."

Yeah, but who cares about your 15-year-old daughter? We're talking about informing women!

State Sen. Anthony Sykes, R-Moore, who sponsored the ultrasound bill, said the goal was to provide women seeking an abortion with as much information possible before they had the procedure.

And that's why one of the other bills heading to the governor's desk would require women to disclose private information to the state before obtaining a legal medical procedure. For their own good.

Another bill would require a woman seeking an abortion and her doctor to complete a 38-question form that asks, among other things, the woman's age, race, education, number of previous pregnancies and reason for seeking an abortion.

The bill would also require women to disclose to the state their marital status and method of payment for the legal medical procedure. Because it's super important for the state to have this information to figure out how to reduce abortions impose further restrictions on women's access to a legal medical procedure.

What's next? A law that requires women to write a 100-word essay from the perspective of the fetus before they're allowed to obtain this legal medical procedure? You know, just to make sure they have all the necessary information.