{"id":1421862,"date":"2022-04-06T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421862"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:00:18","slug":"oklahoma-legislature-passes-near-total-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-legislature-passes-near-total-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Legislature Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foklahoma-legislature-passes-near-total-abortion-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421862&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Oklahoma\u2019s Republican-led State Legislature passed a law on Tuesday which would ban abortion in nearly every circumstance and punish physicians who perform abortions with heavy fines, jail time, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma House voted 70-14 to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us\/cf_pdf\/2021-22%20ENGR\/SB\/SB612%20ENGR.PDF\">SB 612<\/a>, sending it to Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), who has previously vowed to sign \u201cevery piece of pro-life legislation\u201d that comes across his desk, the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/05\/us\/oklahoma-abortion-ban.html\">reported<\/a>. The bill bans all abortions \u201cexcept to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency.\u201d The bill defines a medical emergency as \u201ca pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness or physical injury including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The law would also make performing an abortion a \u201cfelony punishable by $100,000,\u201d imprisonment for up to 10 years, or both, according to the bill\u2019s text. Republican state Rep. Jim Olsen <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/05\/oklahoma-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-abortion-imprison-doctors\/\">emphasized<\/a> that \u201cthe penalties are for the doctor, not for the woman.\u201d If Stitt signs the bill, the law will take effect on August 26, the Senate clerk\u2019s office told the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen, who authored the bill, said the law was passed in \u201canticipation of a pending Supreme Court decision on a Mississippi law which bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy,\u201d the report states.\u00a0The case,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/30\/supreme-court-set-to-hear-biggest-challenge-to-roe-v-wade-in-decades\/\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>is the most significant challenge\u00a0in decades\u00a0to the Court\u2019s 1973\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>decision, which\u00a0declared abortion to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cObviously, I\u2019m thrilled because we have the potential of seeing many lives of babies saved \u2014 part of that depends on future court rulings,\u201d he said, adding that the bill passed without any floor debate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In stark contrast to a law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/05\/colorado-codifies-fundamental-right-abortion-denies-any-rights-for-unborn\/\">recently passed<\/a> in Colorado, which declares that unborn children at all stages have no rights and permits abortions at all stages of pregnancy, Oklahoma\u2019s bill says that the \u201cterms \u2018abortion\u2019 and \u2018unborn child\u2019 shall have the same meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill was passed as roughly 100 people protested in support of abortion outside the state\u2019s capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese legislators have continued their relentless attacks on our freedoms,\u201d claimed Emily Wales, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes.<\/p>\n<p>The House also passed a <a href=\"http:\/\/webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us\/cf_pdf\/2021-22%20FLR\/HFLR\/HCR1014%20HFLR.PDF\">resolution<\/a> on Tuesday designating\u00a0January 22, 2022, the \u201cDay of Tears\u201d in Oklahoma. The legislature assigned that date because the Supreme Court \u201cerroneously ruled\u201d that abortion was a constitutional right in\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>on January 22, 1973.\u00a0The measure encourages Oklahoma citizens to lower their flags to half-staff to \u201cmourn the innocent, preborn children who have lost their lives due to abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince that ill-fated day, over sixty-one million (61,000,000) preborn children in the United States have perished,\u201d the text states.<\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katherineeeeee2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma\u2019s Republican-led State Legislature passed a law on Tuesday which would ban abortion in nearly every circumstance and punish physicians who perform abortions with heavy fines, jail time, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}