Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill To Make Abortion Illegal

Apr 13, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    36% Negative

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"Although similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature in recent years have been stopped as unconstitutional, anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place."
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22% Conservative
"The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law to take effect in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a bounty of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion."
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-8% Liberal
"We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma, Stitt said during a signing ceremony for the bill, flanked by anti-abortion lawmakers, clergy and students."
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-10% Liberal
"The U.S. Supreme Court's failure to stop Texas from nullifying the constitutional right to abortion has emboldened other states to do the same, Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement."
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-22% Liberal
"The Texas law bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest."
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-24% Liberal
"Oklahoma legislators are trying to ban abortion from all sides and merely seeing which of these dangerous, shameful bills they can get their governor to sign, Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Texas and Oklahoma and a board member at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement."
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-26% Liberal
"Sen. Nathan Dahm, a Broken Arrow Republican now ruing for Congress who wrote the bill, called it the strongest pro-life legislation in the country right now, which effectively eliminates abortion in Oklahoma."
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-28% Liberal
"We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma, Stitt said during a signing ceremony for the bill, flanked by anti-abortion lawmakers, clergy and students."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The bill makes an exception only for an abortion performed to save the life of the motherOklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law on Tuesday that makes it a felony to perform an abortion, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, as part of an aggressive push in Republican-led states across the country to scale back abortion rights."
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-14% Liberal
"Sen. Nathan Dahm, a Broken Arrow Republican now ruing for Congress who wrote the bill, called it the strongest pro-life legislation in the country right now, which effectively eliminates abortion in Oklahoma."
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-18% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Although similar anti-abortion bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature in recent years have been stopped as unconstitutional, anti-abortion lawmakers have been buoyed by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow new Texas abortion restrictions to remain in place.
46% : The new Texas law, the most restrictive anti-abortion law to take effect in the U.S. in decades, leaves enforcement up to private citizens, who are entitled to collect what critics call a "bounty" of $10,000 if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion.
45% : "We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma," Stitt said during a signing ceremony for the bill, flanked by anti-abortion lawmakers, clergy and students.
39% : "The U.S. Supreme Court's failure to stop Texas from nullifying the constitutional right to abortion has emboldened other states to do the same," Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.
38% : The Texas law bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
37% :"Oklahoma legislators are trying to ban abortion from all sides and merely seeing which of these dangerous, shameful bills they can get their governor to sign," Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Texas and Oklahoma and a board member at Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement.
36% : Sen. Nathan Dahm, a Broken Arrow Republican now running for Congress who wrote the bill, called it the "strongest pro-life legislation in the country right now, which effectively eliminates abortion in Oklahoma."

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