{"id":10944,"date":"2022-04-05T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/news\/oklahoma-lawmakers-approve-near-total-ban-on-abortion\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T21:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:13:01","slug":"oklahoma-lawmakers-approve-near-total-ban-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/news\/oklahoma-lawmakers-approve-near-total-ban-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Lawmakers Approve Near-Total Ban on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Lawmakers in Oklahoma on Tuesday authorised a near-total ban on abortion, making it the most recent Republican-led state to forge forward with stringent abortion laws because the Supreme Courtroom weighs a case that might overturn Roe v. Wade later this 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">The measure, Senate Invoice 612, would make performing an abortion \u201cbesides to avoid wasting the lifetime of a pregnant lady in a medical emergency\u201d a felony punishable by as much as 10 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">The Oklahoma Home voted 70 to 14 to ship the invoice, which handed the Senate final 12 months, to Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who promised in September to signal \u201cevery bit of pro-life laws\u201d that got here to his desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Its passage got here after Oklahoma grew to become a significant vacation spot for girls from Texas who have been searching for abortions after that state enacted a legislation banning the process after about six weeks, a really early stage of being pregnant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">\u201cIf allowed to take impact, S.B. 612 can be devastating for each Oklahomans and Texans who proceed to hunt care in Oklahoma,\u201d mentioned Tamya Cox-Tour\u00e9, government director of the A.C.L.U. of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">\u201cAlmost half of the sufferers Oklahoma suppliers are at present seeing are medical refugees from Texas,\u201d Ms. Cox-Tour\u00e9 mentioned in a press release. \u201cNow, Oklahomans may face a future the place they might don&#8217;t have any place left of their state to go to hunt this fundamental well being care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">It is a creating story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Supply: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/05\/us\/oklahoma-near-total-abortion-ban.html\">NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Oklahoma on Tuesday authorised a near-total ban on abortion, making it the most recent Republican-led state to forge forward with stringent abortion laws because the Supreme Courtroom weighs a case that might overturn Roe v. Wade later this 12 months. The measure, Senate Invoice 612, would make performing an abortion \u201cbesides to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenmag.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}