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Oklahoma just passed a near-total abortion ban

kalindana

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law Tuesday criminalizing all abortions with narrow exceptions to save the pregnant person's life. Under the law, medical providers who perform abortions could be punished with up to 10 years in prison.

The ban will take effect 90 days after the state's legislative session ends, putting it on track for enforcement by the end of August. The ban is similar to laws passed last year in Arkansas and in Alabama in 2019, both of which have been blocked from going into effect by courts.

Stitt recognized on Tuesday that the law will likely be challenged immediately. And that could be why, despite a total ban on abortion going into effect imminently, a slew of abortion restrictions are still making their way through the Oklahoma legislature. As statehouses across the country rush to pass new abortion restrictions ahead of a consequential Supreme Court ruling this summer, Oklahoma lawmakers are trying to restrict abortion access by any and all means necessary.

If any of Oklahoma's bills take effect, the impact would be tremendous. After Texas implemented its six-week abortion ban this past September, Oklahoma has become a haven for people seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Since September, about 1,400 Texans have left the state each month for an abortion, per data collected by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project. Almost half — 45 percent — went to Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma just passed a near-total abortion ban. More restrictions are likely coming.

Still, the state legislature is moving on to pass even more abortion restrictions in preparation for a Supreme Court decision this summer.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs near-total abortion ban that will take effect in August

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed what is likely the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The law will classify performing an abortion as a felony.
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PlanetSmasher

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I hate this country with a passion, and Republicans are about 75% of the reason why.
 
Kill3r7

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They are jumping the gun. It will most likely be unconstitutional depending on what happens with the Mississippi case.
 

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Just fucking depressing, deeply so. Brings a hopeless feeling to the surface easily and makes it hard to see anything getting any better... and I hate being cynical like that! But, like, where is there to turn to see some sort of hope in this situation?
 
Thordinson

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Kill3r7 said:
They are jumping the gun. It will most likely be unconstitutional depending on what happens with the Mississippi case.
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This doesn't matter all that much to them. Abortions are illegal there now. Abortion providers will stop performing them because they are scared. You can see it in Texas already.
 
Watchtower

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Thordinson said:
This doesn't matter all that much to them. Abortions are illegal there now. Abortion providers will stop performing them because they are scared. You can see it in Texas already.
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Yeah it needs to be emphasized that neither legality nor enforcement actually matter. The whole point is to scare people away from even attempting anything even close. Law can't be broken if people at too afraid to break it, no need to enforce if you deputize civilians to do it for you.

Literal law by terrorism.
 
Latvian Hitman

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Thordinson said:
This doesn't matter all that much to them. Abortions are illegal there now. Abortion providers will stop performing them because they are scared. You can see it in Texas already.
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Yep. Plus this stops the influx of people from TX coming to OK to get abortions performed. If SCOTUS doesn't strike down the MS ban, the entire deep south will have total bans in place within a year or two. If a 15-year-old living near or below the poverty line gets pregnant and she can't afford to travel halfway across the country, her options will be: risk your life getting an unsafe procedure done in an underground clinic or become a mother at 15. Congrats. Your life is also over. And what a great life your kid is being set up for!

Can't wait to see what this does to the size of all the social assistance programs that conservatives endlessly complain about over the next couple of decades. If you connect the dots of all the things the modern GOP wants to do, it will literally make all the "problems" they're trying to solve considerably worse.
 
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Latvian Hitman said:
If you connect the dots of all the things the modern GOP wants to do, it will literally make all the "problems" they're trying to solve considerably worse.
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Sad thing is, that's probably what they want. They are there for many different reasons, but attempting to resolve social issues is not one of them, in fact if there isn't an issue they'll create one so they can gain from it in some way.

But that's if their personal gain even matters, I think spite is more the thing they want.

It's sad to see this happening all over the place for you folks in the USA. Abortion rights are needed for all.
 
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Just a reminder that the Republican party only exists to make everyone's lives worse. They are a cancer on society and it's going past malignant into a terminal phase.
 
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Thordinson said:
This doesn't matter all that much to them. Abortions are illegal there now. Abortion providers will stop performing them because they are scared. You can see it in Texas already.
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Watchtower said:
Yeah it needs to be emphasized that neither legality nor enforcement actually matter. The whole point is to scare people away from even attempting anything even close. Law can't be broken if people at too afraid to break it, no need to enforce if you deputize civilians to do it for you.

Literal law by terrorism.
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This can't be emphasized enough. This is what is happening out there.
 
steejee

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At this point how many of the stars on our flag represent states that aren't actively trying to wreck anyone who isn't a well off straight white christian male?
 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/oklahoma-ban-abortions.html
The Oklahoma Legislature gave final approval on Thursday to a bill that prohibits nearly all abortions starting at fertilization, which would make it the nation's strictest abortion law.

The bill is modeled on one that took effect in Texas in September, which has relied on civilian instead of criminal enforcement to work around court challenges. But it goes further than the Texas law, which bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

The bill subjects abortion providers and anyone who "aids or abets" an abortion to civil suits from private individuals. It would take effect immediately upon signature by Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who has pledged to make his state the most anti-abortion in the nation.
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Asked on "Fox News Sunday" how he would help women who carried out their pregnancies despite financial or other challenges that would make it difficult to raise a child, Mr. Stitt blamed the "socialist democrat left" for attempting to abort poor children.
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Fucked up. Really wonder how it would go if one of these lawsuits actually went to court. But even the legal costs could be ruinous for providers.
 
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Watchtower said:
Yeah it needs to be emphasized that neither legality nor enforcement actually matter. The whole point is to scare people away from even attempting anything even close. Law can't be broken if people at too afraid to break it, no need to enforce if you deputize civilians to do it for you.

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Effectively creating a secret, unaccountable, police force.
 
Chrome Hyena

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So this why he is threatening native American reservations he knows he has no power over. Because half of Oklahoma sits in a Native American reservation.
 
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Complete disgust. It's almost impossible for me to understand that this is actually happening. Fuck.
 
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Oklahoma governor signs the nation's strictest abortion ban

Oklahoma now becomes the first state in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation's strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.

State lawmakers approved the ban enforced by civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution, similar to a Texas law that was passed last year. The law takes effect immediately upon Stitt's signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions. Abortion providers have said they will stop performing the procedure as soon as the bill is signed.
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Lots of evil people out there. Terrible and I hope change comes very quickly through action.
 
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