The Republican governor of Oklahoma, in the southern United States, announced on Tuesday May 3 that he signed a law prohibiting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, one of the most restrictive in the country, while the Supreme Court s would be preparing to reconsider this right at the federal level.
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"I represent all four million Oklahoma residents who overwhelmingly want to protect unborn children
," Kevin Stitt wrote on Twitter as he signed into law the text voted by the state legislature last Thursday.
Monday evening, the leak of a draft decision from the Supreme Court indicates that the federal institution would be on the verge of handing over to the states the power to authorize, or not, abortions, almost 50 years after having made them legal. in all the countries.