OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Monday temporarily blocked two new anti-abortion laws from taking effect next month, including a measure similar to a Texas abortion ban that effectively bans the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy. About 11 women from Texas received abortion services at the Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City in August. Women have been increasingly seeking out-of-state abortions as Republican legislatures and governors pass ever-more restrictive abortion laws, particularly in the South. “Oklahoma clinics were already inundated with patients from both Texas and Oklahoma, and if these laws take effect, many Oklahoma abortion providers won’t be able to provide care,“ Braid said in a statement. Muqaddam said once she and attorneys for the Oklahoma attorney general’s office reach agreement on a formal order for the judge to sign, the center plans to appeal the judge’s ruling to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Source: thestar October 04, 2021 22:02 UTC