The law goes into effect in August, if courts don't intervene, effectively removing a critical abortion sanctuary for Texans and worsening the access crisis.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill on Tuesday banning abortion in the state starting in August.will make the act of providing an abortion a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and/or $100,000 fine, if the bill goes unchallenged in the courts. The three-page piece of legislation provides one narrow exception to “save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency”—no exceptions for rape or incest survivors.
Accessing abortion in Oklahoma is not just about the Sooner State. Because of S.B. 8, the six-week abortion ban in place in Texas, the surrounding states have become become sanctuaries for abortion provision for Texans. In the months after the Texas law went into effect, Oklahoma began taking a large portion of Texas patients, thereby pushing Oklahomans who still needed access to abortion out of state or further into their pregnancies.
In September 2021, Planned Parenthood centers in Oklahoma served more than 250 pregnant people with Texas zip codes, compared to 30 patients in September in 2020 and 2019. “For seven months our clinics have seen first-hand the impact of the health care crisis created by Texas’s S.B. 8 — the legislation that has emboldened anti-abortion legislators across the country.
While the Oklahoma bill itself doesn’t authorize criminal charges for the patient—only the provider—pregnancy loss is already being criminalized in this country. Last week in Texas,
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