Under the bill, anyone convicted of performing an abortion would face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
Sen. Nathan Dahm, a Broken Arrow Republican now running for Congress who wrote the bill, called it the"strongest pro-life legislation in the country right now, which effectively eliminates abortion in Oklahoma.""It has never been more obvious that politicians are using tricks and games to pass these harmful laws," Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Texas and Oklahoma and a board member at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement.
Similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and in other conservative states in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional, but anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place.
The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a"bounty" of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion.White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki released a statement writing:
"Today, the country's most restrictive legislation regulating access to reproductive health care was signed into law in Oklahoma. This law makes providing an abortion illegal in the state of Oklahoma, with only a narrow exception for medical emergencies and no exception for rape or incest. This unconstitutional attack on women's rights is just the latest and one of the most extreme state laws signed into law to date. Protecting the right recognized in Roe v. Wade continues to be a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration, and we call on Congress to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, which would shut down these attacks and codify this long-recognized, constitutional right.
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