Tag: oklahoma
Oklahoma Becomes First State to Entirely Ban Abortion
05.25.2022 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law H.B. 4327, a citizen-enforced total ban on abortion that took effect today immediately upon signature. Oklahoma is now the only state in the United States to successfully outlaw abortion while Roe v. Wade still stands. A coalition of Oklahoma abortion providers and a […]
Oklahoma’s Vigilante Abortion Ban Takes Effect, Further Devastating Access in the Region
Oklahoma Supreme Court refuses to block the Texas-style law.
Vigilante Abortion Ban Takes Effect in Oklahoma
05.03.2022 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Oklahoma Supreme Court declined to immediately block a citizen-enforced ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy (S.B. 1503). The Oklahoma state legislature passed the ban on April 28 with anti-abortion lawmakers forestalling any debate or questions. The Court issued its ruling shortly before Gov. Kevin Stitt signed […]
Center and Partners Sue Oklahoma Over Abortion Bans That Would Further Devastate Access in the Region
Since Texas’s abortion ban and vigilante scheme banned most abortions in the state, people have rushed to neighboring states—including Oklahoma—to seek abortion care. Now Oklahoma has passed its own extreme abortion bans, which would further devastate abortion access in the region. One law, S.B. 612, passed earlier this month and due to take effect in […]
Legal Challenges Filed to Block Two Extreme Oklahoma Abortion Bans
04.28.2022 – (PRESS RELEASE) Today, a coalition of Oklahoma abortion providers and a reproductive justice organization filed two separate challenges in state court to block two different abortion bans passed during the 2022 state legislative session. The six-week Texas-style abortion ban (S.B. 1503;challenge linked here), which passed today with no debate or questions allowed, would […]
Oklahoma House Committee Passes Extreme Total Ban on Abortion
03.02.2022 — (PRESS RELEASE) Today, Republicans in the Oklahoma House of Representatives Committee on Public Health swiftly pushed through a total abortion ban that would eliminate access to care for more than one million people across the state and many more in the surrounding region. Since Texas’ six-week ban on abortion (S.B. 8) took effect […]
