Oklahoma Gov Signs 3 Anti-Abortion Bills
Oklahoma | April 27, 2021
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, on Monday signed three bills into law restricting abortion in the state.
“I’m keeping my promise to sign all pro-life legislation,” Stitt tweeted Monday along with photos of him signing the bills. “We now have three more laws protecting the lives of the unborn! HB 2441, HB 1904, and HB 1102.”
House Bill 2441 makes it illegal to perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, The Hill reports. In most pregnancies, that’s at six weeks, before most women know they are pregnant.
A doctor who performs such an abortion can be found guilty of homicide, according to the law. It does, however, provide for an exception if done to save the mother’s life or to “avert serious risk” of physical impairment, not “including psychological or emotional conditions,” according to The Hill.
House Bill 1102 would put abortion under the state’s statutes of “unprofessional conduction” for doctors unless it was needed to prevent death or other serious impairment to the mother.
House Bill 1101, meanwhile, requires doctors performing abortions to be certified in gynecology and obstetrics. Critics say the law will sharply cut the number of physicians able to perform abortions in the state…
(Excerpts from Newsmax)