Oklahoma Governor Signs America's Most Restrictive Anti-Abortion Law

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : In addition, following the line of the controversial law against abortion approved last year in Texas, the new norm allows citizens to denounce any company or person that assists a woman in the interruption of her pregnancy.
40% : In addition, another rule signed by the governor in April and which should take effect this summer, prohibits any interruption of pregnancy, except to save the life of the mother under penalty of up to 10 years in prison for those who perform abortion.
40% : The ban on abortion in Oklahoma was approved in the expectation that the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, will overturn in June the Roe versus Wade ruling, which since 1973 protects the constitutional right to abortion throughout the country.
38% : A leaked high court draft suggests the justices are considering overturning the doctrine's landmark decision that legalized abortion nearly 50 years ago.
36% : The NGO Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) responded in a statement that "no one should be forced to continue a pregnancy against their will" and warned that prohibiting abortion endangers women, who have to terminate their pregnancy outside the health system.
35% : Gov. Stitt, who is seeking re-election in next November's midterm elections, has vowed to sign any law passed by the Oklahoma legislature against abortion.
35% :Civil society organizations estimate that at least 26 of the country's 50 states, governed by conservatives, will ban abortion once the Supreme Court issues its ruling.
33% : Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law on Wednesday that bans abortion in the state from the moment of fertilization, considered the most restrictive legislation in the United States.

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