Oklahoma state passes near-total abortion ban
0521381705213817 The Oklahoma State House of Representatives approved this Tuesday (5) a bill that prohibits abortion in all cases, except in those where the mother’s life is at risk, and which will become the most protective legislation in the United States.
The text, approved with 15 votes in favor and against, now needs to be enacted by the state governor, the republican Kevin Stitt, who in September last year committed to signing pro-life legislation like this.
The Oklahoma proposal prohibits, with sentences of up to ten years in prison, a doctor from performing an abortion at any time during pregnancy, unless it is to save the woman’s life.
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Also, allows individuals to file civil actions against anyone who helps a pregnant woman get an abortion if they believe they violate the prohibition and offers financial rewards to the plaintiff if they win the case.
Abortion is legal in the US since the country’s Supreme Court allowed the practice in
, in a controversial trial. Years after the sentence, the woman who was the main plaintiff in the action admitted to having lied to further the pro-abortion cause.
In recent decades, the mostly pro-life population in several states has managed to set limits, which contributes to reducing the generalized death of unborn babies.
Everything indicates that the conservative majority in the Supreme Court should decide to change the abortion issue in the country in June or July this year, when they will judge a law of the state of Mississippi, which limited from 15 weeks to practice, contrary to the total release established by the Judiciary in 1973.
05213817If this happens, the expectation is that 26 states adopt limits on the practice of abortion. So far, the law that best protects the unborn baby is that of Texas, where abortion is prohibited as soon as fetal heart activity is detected, around six weeks of gestation.
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