It is not certain that Governor Mary Fallin will sign the bill, and it will certainly be challenged if she does.
The Republican bill, which has been called the first of its kind nationally, will now be sent to the desk of GOP Gov. Mary Fallin. She has five days to sign or veto the bill before it automatically becomes law.
The bill is all but certain to wind up in court if it wins approval from Fallin, who has typically supported anti-abortion-rights measures.
Critics of the bill have long warned the provision is unconstitutional, and have threatened to take legal action if it is enacted.
“This total ban on abortion is a new low. When abortion is illegal, women and their health, futures, and families suffer,” Amanda Allen, a lawyer at the Center for Reproductive Rights, wrote in a statement Thursday.
Under the law, most doctors who perform abortions stand to lose their license. The only exception is for doctors who perform abortions to save a mother’s life; it does not exempt procedures that are performed in cases or rape or incest.
The state Senate approved the latest version of the bill, 33-12, on Thursday. It passed the state House in April.
There are over a million abortions performed each year in the United States, including gruesome and barbaric procedures known as partial birth abortions which essentially pull part of the almost full term baby from the womb and then tear it to pieces with a forceps. The Left has insisted that any limitations on abortion, including performing an abortion after the baby can feel pain after the 22nd week of gestation, and partial birth abortion are unacceptable limitations on women’s rights, and they also completely resist efforts to require expectant mothers to have access to radio-photography in order to see the baby in the womb. Such imagery would help expecting mothers to see the baby as more than a lump of tissue, and that would surely cause some to have second thoughts.
President Bill Clinton once said that abortion should be available but rare, but recent surveys have found that abortion is, for the vast majority of women, being used as a form of birth control and to provide the abortion lobby a cash cow business. With the many forms of contraceptives now available, abortion should be limited and unusual. But for the Oklahoma legislature to play the Democrat game of calling the prohibition by a different name, in this case recognizing the right to an abortion but making it illegal for a doctor to perform one, only makes the law makers look ridiculous and sneaky. This end run around Roe v Wade will ultimately be challenged and overturned. The objective may be noble, but the means seems to be inappropriate, at best.
Source: thehill.com
A ruling on the Supreme Court effects all states. If they rule something is legal in one state it applies to all seems like you need to do some homework buddy. Let me know if you need help with the big words.
Mary Fallin vetoed this, said it was “too vague”
We now have the Plan B pills for those cases so they are not an excuse any longer. There are a lot of rape victims that have their children and give them up for adoption. Most keep and love their children dearly. An innocent baby should not die because of the actions of the biological father. Also, the percentage of pregnancies due to rape, etc is 5% and that was Before the Plan B pills. Of course that is not the woman’s fault or responsibility. But the decisions she makes afterwards is. If you let it destroy your life or if you stand strong and move forward. If you move forward, the no good bastard doesn’t win. We have to be honest and remember we would have stricter laws on rape if so many women didn’t falsely accuse men of rape out of anger or revenge. We all know the kind of world we are living in. Learn to protect yourself. Because, sadly, these days, no one is going to help you.
Abortion should be a decision between a woman, her doctor and her God. I don’t want my tax dollars paying for it. And I don’t want to hear her whining about it later.
David Rosenberg No We aren’t talking about rape. That’s a crime against another.
Sound nice, but the governor vetoed the law and this is old statement.
Real doctors don’t do abortions
A ruling BY the supreme court effects only the case at hand. And honestly, the Fed has been overreaching for far too long. Abortions should be illegal in cases of accidental pregnancy. We are far too advanced as a country to not be responsible as women to controll weather or not we get pregnant. The law was vetoed anyhow.
Is this if it saves the mother’s life too? That would be an only reason to abort.
Refusing to allow abortions is forced slavery. Slavery is both immoral and illegal.
If you don’t like abortions, don’t have one.
Who do you think you are to tell any woman what she may or may not do in her private life and with her own body?
How about everyone on welfare for 5 years be sterilized? That would save a bundle which could be used to fund the removal of unwanted children from the womb. You all complain about your tax dollars funding abortions, but you don’t seem to mind supporting the unwanted children for 18 years and maybe for life.