Oklahoma Far Right Abortion Law Blocked By Court
The new Oklahoma law that blatantly violated state and federal constitutions, by requiring that detailed information about each woman who has an abortion be published on the state’s website, has been delayed by at least a month: Okla. Abortion Publicity Law Blocked by Court.
To challenge the state constitutionality of the law, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Oklahoma women.
The center’s spokeswoman Dionne Scott said a temporary restraining order that stops enforcement was granted late Monday by Oklahoma County District Court Judge Twyla Mason Gray so that she could “look further into the case.”
The law, House Bill 1595, requires physicians to ask patients, described as “mothers,” up to 37 personal questions, including their age, marital status, race, years of education, number of prior pregnancies, reason for the abortion, method of abortion and payment and whether an ultrasound was performed.
Former state Rep. Wanda Jo Stapleton, an Oklahoma City Democrat who brought the lawsuit with Lora Joyce Davis, a resident of Shawnee, Okla., applauded the court granted reprieve.
“This is one of dozens of bills piled on year after year by the Oklahoma legislature to place obstacles in the path of women,” Stapleton said on Tuesday. “The bill points a public finger at women and is intended to scare them to death.”
(Hat tip: SJ.)
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