Oklahoma lawmakers approve bill to revoke licenses of abortion doctors

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Oklahoma lawmakers approve bill to revoke licenses of abortion doctors

By Heide Brandes

April 22, 2016

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma bill that could revoke the license of any doctor who performs an abortion has headed to the governor, with opponents saying the measure in unconstitutional and promising a legal battle against the cash-strapped state if it is approved.

In the Republican-dominated legislature, the state's House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a Senate bill late on Thursday. Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican, has not yet indicated whether she will sign it.

Under the bill, doctors who perform abortions would risk losing their medical licenses. Exemptions would be given for those who perform the procedure for reasons including protecting the mother or removing a miscarried fetus.

"This is our proper function, to protect life,” said Senator Nathan Dahm, the Republican who authored the bill.


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Senator Nathan Dahm

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[Archae]

1. Even money this asshole had an abortion for his mistress.

[Tess49]

2. And back to court we go. This state is so poor that it can no longer keep schools running

properly, layoffs in every state agency, etc. Now, yet another lawsuit to pay for, despite the fact that we lose every one of these. I am so sick of these RW asses that I could scream.

[Lithos]

3. And for those under 40

They all have that fake spiked hair do...

Such a manufactured set of assholes that ever existed...

Oklahoma deserves better...

[iandhr]

5. They keep voting for these people.

So one could argue they got what they paid for.

[Lithos]

11. That's really bad..

These people need our help...

I mean they are at least 20 years behind the style curve, if nothing else...

[iandhr]

21. They have made it clear they don't want our help.

[Tess49]

10. The legislature is full of them. Makes me furious. n/t

[Lithos]

12. It's a case where ignorance is blessed...

Trust me, I live in Austin - travel North of the Red River is only spoken of in hushed tones...

[Tess49]

14. I understand. I try not to tell people I'm from here. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

26. I'm like that with Steubenville, OH...

I was born there and left at the age of 4. I lived in Cleveland from the ages of 13-24. So, when asked where I'm from, I say Cleveland. God, I miss that town.

[spartan61]

4. Maybe I'm naive,

but isn't abortion legal in the US of A? How can they revoke the licenses of the doctors who perform a legal procedure?

[iandhr]

6. They can't.

It is obviously unconditional. But those pesky facts don't matter to these wackos.

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. It Is Irrelevant.

They plan to do what they do regardless of federal law. It does not apply to them. Only God's law applies to them.

[jtuck004]

9. The license is granted by the state. They can revoke it for most anything. Whether

that will stand or not is to be determined.

[fred v]

19. It won't stand

Even if Scalia was still on the SCOTUS, it would be a 7-2 ruling against this idiocy.

[Major Nikon]

8. It's like a contest to see who is the dummest hammer in the sack

[turbinetree]

13. His state, you know where the Cherokee nation......................

was forced to go to, this state, has had more earthquakes , in the last four months , and this right wing twit has nothing better to do, but to go after a woman's doctor and there privacy, on a privacy issue that is protected under the 1973 law....................which has been upheld by the courts...............................what total embarrassment, isn't this the jerk, that had a mistress, and asked her to get an abortion, ------------------------what a jerk, and he gets paid tio be a jerk, with no morals at all..............................


Resign...........................go back under your rock..........................



Honk---------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Jeb Bartlet]

15. More Republicans

acting stupidly, how surprising.........*facepalm*.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. There is that small point about criminalizing legal and correct medical practice.

Not to mention undue burden placed on patient and physician. Of course it goes without saying that they are violating Federal Law in several ways.

I don't know if the Governor has any wits about Federal Law but this would so be the wrong statute to sign. It is just possible it may even violate the State Constitution as well.

Dumber than soup are the legislators who passed this. Ugly doesn't come close to describing their souls.

[greymattermom]

17. They know zika is coming, right?

What are their plans?

[Runningdawg]

29. I am from Tulsa

You would be surprised to hear what some old men talk about around the corner table at a Daylight Donuts. Tighten your tinfoil...

Zika is a ploy by liberals to encourage abortion.
Liberals want to scare conservative women into voting for Hillary.
Zika began in a country over-ran by queers and queens. God sent it to America because we are going to allow them to use the bathroom with our children.
God took away the babies brains because liberals like to suck them out and sell them.
Zika was engineered by liberals to distract from the real issues - like Obama selling America to the Muslims and Hillarys plan to confiscate our guns.

Their plans? Have some more donuts and change the subject to "that stupid socialist Jew".

[SusanLarson]

18. A new federal law is needed

A new federal law is needed...

This law would automatically remove the sponsor(s) of any legislation that is found to be unconstitutional by the courts, from office and ban them from ever running again. Lawmakers removed under this provision would have the right to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court; their sole defense would be to argue that the law is indeed constitutional.

This provision would apply to both State Legislatures and the U.S. Congress.

[cab67]

20. This is one of the best ideas I've seen in a long, long time.

I would also extend it to governors and presidents who sign flagrantly unconstitutional legislation into law.

[JunkYardDogg]

22. I agree

When any elected official takes their oath of office, they swear to and promise to uphold and defend the laws of the constitution of the United States
When they write and pass laws that are blatantly and knowingly unconstitutional, they should be removed from office

[wolfie001]

23. stupid rednecked turds

I hate 'em.

[rockfordfile]

24. Un-American Conservative Christians

[sofa king]

25. Time Machine Headline, 2026:

Life Expectancy in Oklahoma Declines Again to 43

[RussBLib]

27. the only way they will quit

will be to vote them out of office come election time.

Unfortunately, a whole lot of their constituency is even dumber than they are.

[QED]

28. A lawsuit will be filed and defended by the state at taxpayer expense.

How is that financially prudent? They must know this law is unconstitutional. I think it's pandering to the base, nothing more.