Wed Apr 6, 2022 – 9:31 pm EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Oklahoma House passed Tuesday a “Life at Conception” bill that would make all abortions illegal except for those performed to save the life of the mother if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Senate Bill 612, which overwhelmingly passed the state Senate last year, would render anyone who “performs” an abortion “guilty of a felony and subject to a maximum fine of $100,000, a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years, or both,” according to the legislation’s written summary.
The bill now heads to Gov. Kevin Stitt, who previously said he would sign into law any pro-life legislation.
S.B. 612 specifically states that it “criminalizes any abortion performed in the state except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency,” but exempts the woman seeking the abortion from any criminal penalty, adding that it would “not authorize charging any woman with any criminal offense in the death of her own unborn child.”
Republican state Rep. Jim Olsen of Roland, who authored the legislation, told The Herald Bulletin that if signed into law it can only be legally enforced if the
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