Okla. court: state law bans all medical abortions

[Tx4obama]

Source: The AP

Oct 29, 6:25 PM EDT OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court said Tuesday that a 2011 law it struck down as unconstitutional effectively bans all drug-induced abortions in the state, a finding that some legal experts said likely dooms the law's chances of being upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The nation's highest court had asked Oklahoma justices to clarify whether the state law applied to three specific drugs that can cause abortions - including mifepristone, more commonly known as RU-486. In all cases, the Oklahoma court answered yes.

Oklahoma's Supreme Court in December upheld a lower court ruling tossing out the law, saying it created an "undue burden" on the ability of women to obtain abortions. A Republican-dominated Legislature passed the bill, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed it and Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to review the case.

Pruitt and the bill's sponsor, Rep. Randy Grau, said the court misinterpreted the bill's intent and that it wasn't as far-reaching as the justices said.



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Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Abortion Law Unconstitutional

The Oklahoma Supreme Court definitively ruled Tuesday that a 2011 restrictive state abortion law is unconstitutional.

In answering questions posed by the U.S. Supreme Court, the court ruled that the law "restricts the long-respected medical discretion of physicians” and effectively bans all drug-induced abortions, according to the judge's order.

The Center for Reproductive Rights raised a legal challenge that prompted a district court to strike down the law in 2012, a decision later upheld by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In light of Tuesday's ruling on the scope of the law, it is up to the U.S. Supreme Court whether to review the case.

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Full post here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/oklahoma-supreme-court-rules-restrictive-abortion-law-unconstitutional

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MORE info on link below

The Abortion Case Making Its Way To The Supreme Court Is A Stealth Attack On Your Reproductive Rights

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/30/2858291/supreme-court-abortion-pill-stealth/

[Botany]

1. even in very red Oklahoma the republican war on women will in the long run ....

.... put them into the dustbin of history

[Control-Z]

2. "Pruitt and the bill's sponsor, Rep. Randy Grau,

said the court misinterpreted the bill's intent and that it wasn't as far-reaching as the justices said."

Oh, sure. It was misinterpretation. They weren't trying to ban drug-induced abortions, just the drugs that are used to induce abortion. See the difference?

[ancianita]

3. Oklahomistan. Where women's constitutional rights go to die.

Didn't they just watch their next door neighbor state just go through this?

[ourfuneral]

12. Hey!

No need to be insulting former Soviet Republics in Central Asia!

[gopiscrap]

4. what about Roe vs Wade

[Maraya1969]

10. These republicans are trying all sorts of fancy dancy ways of getting around Roe V Wade

Most of the time it doesn't work at a judicial level but they just keep trying.

[gopiscrap]

16. yeah historically with this issue and also

with in the 60's with the civil rights issue I noticed the Supreme Court doesn't usually take a good view of back door evisceration of their rulings.

[Sam1]

14. Great Tag line.

[gopiscrap]

15. thanks

[niyad]

5. but, don't you know, they are only doing this to protect women. after all, women are too stupid,

too ill-informed, too uneducated, to be able to make sound decisions for themselves.

[freshwest]

13. Yep, half of humanity dumb? Sorry, the GOP took that prize already...

[valerief]

6. Oklahoma He-Man Women Haters Club

[okaawhatever]

8. Awww...Speaker Boehner was so cute before he grew up and turned orange.....nt

[ReRe]

7. Can they do that?????

If they don't allow abortions, aren't they going against the law of the land? Like, are they a rogue state? If they get away with defying Roe v Wade, what will stop them from defying all federal laws? What's next? Gay marriage? Abolishing education?

[okaawhatever]

9. That's the problem. They can do it all day long. Problem is it has to be appealed so it doesn't

become law. This is happening in several states. They may be trying to waste all of Planned Parenthood's money defending the laws. What's so sad is the state taxpayer money wasted creating these unconstitutional laws.

[ReRe]

11. They can blow the People's money...

... but by damn they don't want the People to spend their money on anything but taxes and propping them up in office. I always found this strange. To them it's not strange at all. They want our money, any way they can get it.

They can tell Merle that no, I'd rather not be an Oakie from Maskokie.

[Maraya1969]

17. I did not fully understand this law until I saw it on another site. I had an ectopic

pregnancy and they had to give me methotrexate. These "men" would have left me there to blow up! I can't believe this would happen in the United States!

[Tx4obama]

19. Here's a NEW link with lots of info...

Here: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/30/2858291/supreme-court-abortion-pill-stealth/

[True Blue Door]

18. Gotta love those small-government states asserting government ownership of half the population.

[UTUSN]

20. R#31 & K n/t