Wed Mar 22, 2023 – 1:47 pm EDTWed Mar 22, 2023 – 2:56 pm EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday on the state’s abortion laws which activists on both sides are claiming as a partial victory and a partial defeat, as it affirmed a “limited right” to abortion in cases of medical emergencies while leaving most of the existing abortion prohibition intact.
Last year, Oklahoma enacted one law empowering residents to bring civil suits against perpetrators of elective abortions, and another law making abortion a felony without rape or incest exceptions, but with an exception for “medical emergency.” Those laws took effect following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last June to overturn Roe v. Wade, restoring states’ ability to set their own abortion laws.
A coalition of abortionists and Planned Parenthood affiliates sued, and on Tuesday the state’s highest court released its 5-4 decision, which rejected calls to “enjoin enforcement of two laws which criminalize abortion,” but at the same time found “there is a limited right to terminate a pregnancy that is protected by the Oklahoma Constitution,” when abortion is (supposedly) “necessary to preserve [a woman’s] life.”
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