{"id":1434638,"date":"2022-04-13T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434638"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:15:43","slug":"oklahoma-prepares-for-the-end-of-roe-with-new-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-prepares-for-the-end-of-roe-with-new-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Prepares For The End Of Roe With New 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\">22<\/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-prepares-for-the-end-of-roe-with-new-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=1434638&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Kevin-Stitt-e1649802365495.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total ban on abortion Tuesday making the procedure a felony, with medical emergencies the sole exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promised Oklahomans that I would sign every pro-life bill that hit my desks, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing here today,\u201d Stitt said at a morning signing ceremony. \u201cWe want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country. We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill, passed unexpectedly by the Oklahoma Senate last week a year after approval in the state House, offers penalties of up to 10 years in prison and a six-figure fine for those who perform an abortion. No exceptions will exist for cases of rape or incest. <\/p>\n<p>The pro-life measure comes as the Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority is on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade this summer. After oral arguments took place in December, a decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization contesting a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy is expected in June, with the potential to reverse the court\u2019s landmark 1973 decision in Roe.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma law banning abortion outright will deter Texas residents from crossing state lines to evade Lone Star restrictions after Republicans in Austin banned the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy last fall. The Supreme Court rejected opportunities to block the Texas law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/20\/1074534980\/supreme-court-for-third-time-allows-texas-to-bar-abortions-after-six-weeks\">three times<\/a>. As a result, Texan abortion seekers have sought to terminate pregnancies in Oklahoma, where Planned Parenthood clinics have reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/texas-abortion-ban-planned-parenthood-roe-79b70317-8b2a-4d8a-aa3c-e98c03c5ed1b.html\">2,500 percent<\/a> patient increase from Texas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly don\u2019t want Texans coming up to Oklahoma,\u201d Stitt said Tuesday. \u201cThat\u2019s certainly not our intent, is to have Texans and other people from other states flood into our state to have abortions, so hopefully this bill will curb that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite President Joe Biden\u2019s first pick confirmed to the Supreme Court last week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court\u2019s 6-3 ideological balance favoring conservatives remains unchanged ahead of June\u2019s decision in the Dobbs case as the high bench <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/oral-arguments-mississippi-abortion-case-begin-supreme-court\">signals<\/a> the end of Roe v. Wade as ruling precedent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2021\/10\/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why\">Twenty-six <\/a>states are expected to tighten restrictions on abortion if the Supreme Court overturns the nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total ban on abortion Tuesday making the procedure a felony, with medical emergencies the sole exception. \u201cI promised Oklahomans that I would sign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434638","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\/1434638","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434638\/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=1434638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}