{"id":1485359,"date":"2022-05-20T08:46:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485359"},"modified":"2022-05-20T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:46:33","slug":"oklahoma-legislature-passes-strictest-abortion-ban-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oklahoma-legislature-passes-strictest-abortion-ban-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Legislature Passes Strictest Abortion Ban in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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-strictest-abortion-ban-in-u-s%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=1485359&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:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-05\/GettyImages-1334856826_0.jpg?h=2992ba0a&#038;itok=f_Ad4JSa\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Oklahoma Legislature on Tuesday approved another pro-life bill, modeled after Texas&#8217; law, that abortion providers claim will be the most stringent ban in the United States if it becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us\/cf_pdf\/2021-22%20AMENDMENTS\/Amendment%20&#038;%20Engr\/HB4327%20SAHB%20&#038;%20ENGR.PDF\">legislation<\/a>\u00a0allows private citizens to sue anyone who assists in an abortion, including abortion providers, from &#8220;any stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill also defines &#8220;woman&#8221; and &#8220;women&#8221; as &#8220;any person whose biological sex is female, including any person with XX chromosomes and any person with a uterus, regardless of any gender identity that the person attempts to assert or claim.&#8221; Some on the left have <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/democrat-witness-testifies-congress-men-can-become-pregnant-and-have-abortions\">claimed<\/a> men can get pregnant as well.<\/p>\n<p>Abortions are allowed in cases of &#8220;rape, sexual assault, or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.&#8221; A medical provider may terminate a pregnancy when it is &#8220;necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency&#8221; as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PPact\/status\/1527342934664052736?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">Planned Parenthood Action<\/a> has already voiced opposition to the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This ban will take effect as soon as the governor signs the bill, making Oklahoma the first state to outlaw abortion entirely \u2014 even while Roe v. Wade still stands,&#8221; the group tweeted, adding that it plans on &#8220;taking Oklahoma to court&#8221; to stop the ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bill follows a string of abortion restrictions in Oklahoma as the <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/courts-law\/supreme-court-votes-strike-down-roe-v-wade-abortion-decision-leaked-draft\">Supreme Court<\/a> appears likely to overturn Roe v. Wade this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-Okla.) is expected to sign the bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>He approved another Texas-style law earlier this month law banning abortions after a <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/state-houses\/oklahoma-bans-most-abortions-after-6-weeks\">fetal heartbeat<\/a> can be detected, which is typically around six weeks of gestation and before a woman knows she is pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The governor signed another law in April making it illegal to perform abortions except in <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/state-houses\/oklahoma-governor-signs-bill-banning-nearly-all-abortions\">medical emergencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another anti-abortion law Stitt approved in April makes it a <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/state-houses\/oklahoma-legislature-approves-abortion-ban\">felony<\/a> to perform an abortion in the state under threat of ten years in prison and a\u00a0$100,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Stitt <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/state-houses\/oklahoma-governor-warns-native-american-tribes-against-creating-abortion\">warned<\/a> Oklahoma Native American tribes in earlier this week to not open up save haven abortion clinics on tribal lands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Legislature on Tuesday approved another pro-life bill, modeled after Texas&#8217; law, that abortion providers claim will be the most stringent ban in the United States if it becomes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1485359","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\/1485359","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485359\/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=1485359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}