Oklahoma passes the toughest law in the entire country against abortion rights

The Oklahoma Congress gave its final approval this Thursday to a bill that restricts the right to abortion with arguments similar to the Texas norm, and that, according to activists and abortion clinics, will be the most restrictive in the country once Let the governor sign it.

The bill is part of a determined push in GOP-led states to restrict abortion rights.

And it passes after the leak of a Supreme Court draft that suggests the justices are considering weakening or overturning the landmark Roe v.

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except to save the life of the mother or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest reported to authorities.

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It is one of three anti-abortion bills sent this year to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, who has indicated he will sign it.

Another Texas-style bill, which bans abortion after cardiac activity can be detected in the embryo (about six weeks after conception, when most mothers don't even know they're pregnant), has already gone into effect and has drastically reduced this right in Oklahoma.

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The third will take effect this summer and will make it a crime to carry out an abortion with penalties of up to 10 years in prison.

That law does not include exceptions for rape or incest.

“Right now, we are preparing for the most restrictive environment that politicians can create: an outright abortion ban, probably with no exceptions,” said Emily Wales, executive director of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which stopped providing abortions in two of his Oklahoma clinics after the six-week ban went into effect this month.

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“It is the worst scenario for abortion care in the state of Oklahoma,” he condemned.

Like the Texas law, the Oklahoma bill would allow citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a woman have an abortion.

After the Supreme Court allowed that mechanism to remain in place, other Republican states tried to copy the Texas ban.

Idaho's governor signed the first measure in March, though it has been temporarily blocked by the state Supreme Court.

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After Texas passed her bill last year, there was a dramatic drop in the number of abortions there, with many women traveling to Oklahoma and other nearby states.

In Oklahoma, both the bill criminalizing abortion and the six-week ban in Texas are pending judicial resolution, but the courts have not stopped either measure so far.