Explainer: What is happening with abortion in Oklahoma?
Oklahoma’s Republican-led Legislature passed several antiabortion restrictions in recent weeks, part of a movement in conservative states to curtail women’s reproductive rights.
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Oklahoma’s Republican-led Legislature passed several antiabortion restrictions in recent weeks, part of a movement in conservative states to curtail women’s reproductive rights.
[The law] goes further, forbidding consequences for reproductive decisions made regardless of “the pregnancy’s outcomes.” Common “outcomes” include birthed infants. …
The Republican Party, evangelical Christianity and the antiabortion movement have long been inextricably linked. Some Christians want to change that.
Kentucky's new law also cracks down on abortion pills. Abortion-rights supporters want them and other abortion services to be restored.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has sued to protect abortion rights, asking a court to recognize a right to abortion under the state constitution.