Empty chairs, deserted waiting rooms.
In the video that accompanies this news, the images of a pregnancy termination clinic describe a place without activity.
Since May 19, the State of Oklahoma prohibits all types of abortions.
Not only that, it encourages any citizen to denounce women who try to carry out the interruption of pregnancy.
The bill approved by the Oklahoma legislators – 76 votes in favor and only 16 against – leaves health personnel and anyone who “aids or abets” the practice of an abortion exposed to civil lawsuits from private individuals.
Those responsible for the clinic tell in the video how they have had to stop their activity suddenly and the trauma that has meant canceling all the appointments that were arranged.
Before, they performed between 15 and 20 abortions a day.
Now none.
The Republican-majority Oklahoma Congress had been taking steps to curtail abortion rights.
When the echo of the women's marches in defense of the Roe vs. Wade
doctrine has not yet died down
-the last, this weekend, in 44 cities in the country-, Oklahoma takes the lead in front of other states led by Republicans, and is rushing to pass the toughest laws since the constitutional right to abortion was established almost 50 years ago.
The country is thus divided into two halves, which also show the gap between Republicans and Democrats in a politically delicate situation, the campaign for the mid-term elections on November 8.
