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Oklahomas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrapped a state law that restricts access to drug-induced abortions, according to The Associated Press.
The 2014 measure, signed by then-Gov. Mary Fallin (R), outlawed off-label use of mifepristone, or RU-486, an abortifacient medication, making Oklahoma the only state with such a restriction on the books. The Center for Reproductive Rights sued over the law in September 2014 and a state district court blocked it in November 2017.
The state appealed the decision to the high court, which upheld the decision Tuesday after previously leaving it in place in 2016 to allow the lower-court litigation to proceed.
The 2014 law required doctors to obey a 2000 FDA labeling protocol for medical termination of pregnancies, rather than a 2016 labeling protocol, and place[d] a substantial obstacle in the path of womens choice and place[d] an undue burden on the womans rights, the state supreme court ruled.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/441388-oklahoma-supreme-court-rules-restricting-drug-induced-abortions-is
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(10,062 posts)maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)Oklahoma Supreme Court rules AGAINST restricting drug-induced abortions?
This is the only progressive political body we have left in Oklahoma.
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