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Oklahoma's Republican-led Senate overturned Democratic Gov. Brad Henry's veto of a controversial abortion bill. The bill, effective immediately, requires Oklahoma women to get an ultrasound and listen to a complete description of the fetus before getting an abortion.

KOCO in Oklahoma City asks the State representative who sponsored the bill, why it's important.

"The bill is important because it provides the woman all of the information she needs before she makes a life-altering, irrevocable decision."

KWTV in Oklahoma City talks to a doctor from Planned Parenthood who says the lack of a rape or incest exemption is revictimizing some women.

"For a woman who's been raped and that's why she's having the termination, or a woman who's been a victim on incest to have to undergo that, and no exemption made for that is even worse."

The governor predicts the bills will likely be ruled unconstitutional. Tulsa's Fox 23 reports what's in the other controversial bills Oklahoma passed.

"The other bills would require women to complete a lengthy questionnaire before getting an abortion. Also approved, bills to prevent so-called 'wrongful life' lawsuits. Those argue a baby would have been better off aborted."

The president of pro-life group Focus on the Family, Jim Daly says the bill doesn't restrict abortions as the media is claiming. He says ultrasounds are proven to reduce the occurrence of abortions, but the woman still chooses.

"This is a good thing. Regardless of where a person comes down on the matter of abortion’s legality, it makes no sense for anyone to oppose a law that provides women with more rather than less information about a matter of life and death."

On a Huffington Post blog ,Peter Daou, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, says the law is about women, not babies.

"The underlying assumption is that women want to do something uninformed and frivolous and the state has to 'educate' them and shame them out of it. ... It seems that this is primarily about assuming women are murderous, immoral fetus-killers who must be stopped at all costs."

So what do you think? Should women receive ultrasounds before an abortion? Do Oklahoma's bills go too far?

Writer: Erika Roberts