National Right to Life News, May 2, 2012 By Dave Andrusko It’s been a very good four days for the Right to Life Movement. On Friday, pro-life Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law two measures. HB 2381 addresses the dangerous use of webcam technology which allows the abortionist to be hundreds of miles away […]
May 1, 2012
NECN.com, May 1, 2012 by AP OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin has signed a bill that places new restrictions on doctors who prescribe abortion inducing drugs. Fallin signed 11 bills on Tuesday, including one requiring physicians who prescribe RU-486 — or mifepristone — to be physically present when the drug is first provided […]
May 1, 2012
Market Watch, May 1, 2012 Press Release WASHINGTON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Oklahoma State Supreme Court has moved to deny Oklahoma citizens their right to a ballot access initiative for Personhood. On April 30, repeatedly citing Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Oklahoma State Supreme Court denied Personhood Oklahoma’s right to petition, […]
April 30, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 30, 2012 by Robin Marty In Ohio, anti-choice groups schism over the controversial “heartbeat ban,” with one set of anti-choice activists declaring that the other side was going too far and could potentially damage the movement with their zealotry. Now, the same sort of push back appears to be happening in […]
April 30, 2012
Reuters, April 30, 2012 By Steve Olafson The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday struck down a ballot initiative that sought voter approval of a so-called “personhood” amendment to the state constitution to define an embryo as a human being from the moment of conception. The ballot question would have asked Oklahoma voters to expand the […]
April 29, 2012
NECN.com, April 29, 2012 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — About 250 demonstrators marched on Oklahoma’s state Capitol to protest legislation restricting reproductive rights. UniteWomen.org organized “United Against the War on Women” marches and rallies across the nation Saturday in response to bills that it perceives as attacking reproductive, voting and human rights. Demonstrators said measures such […]
April 27, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 27, 2012 by Robin Marty Despite threats from anti-choice activists that any lawmaker who torpedoed the bill would be labeled “pro-abortion,” Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma refused to allow any procedural measures to pass that would force a vote on an a “fertilized egg-as-person” bill in the House or Senate. But that […]
April 27, 2012
NewsOK, April 27, 2012 by Michael McNutt A House member shouts unsuccessfully to get the measure brought up for a hearing in the closing minutes of Thursday’s session. Meanwhile, the leader of an anti-abortion group apologizes to House Republicans for tactics used in trying to get the measure heard before Thursday’s deadline. The so-called personhood […]
April 25, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 25, 2012 by Robin Marty Louisiana’s new bill requiring abortion providers to play audio of the heartbeat of an embryo or fetus prior to an abortion has passed the full Senate and is now heading to the House, according to a report from AM870. The state already requires a woman to […]
April 24, 2012
NECN.com, April 24, 2012 by AP OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Anti-abortion activists urged House Republicans to bring a “personhood” bill to the floor for a vote and vowed on Tuesday to label any lawmaker who refuses to support the move as “pro-abortion.” A group of local religious leaders and other anti-abortion activists made the comments […]
April 24, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 24, 2012 by Robin Marty Would you feel comfortable seeing a doctor who hadn’t been practicing medicine in at least a decade? Then why are “former OBG-GYN” congressman apparently getting extra say in what sort of health care women should be allowed to have nationally? Politico takes a look at the […]
April 21, 2012
Tulsa World, April 21, 2012 In a stunning and frankly unexpected display of common sense, House Republicans on Thursday decided not to take up a controversial, so-called “personhood” bill. House Speaker Kris Steele, R-Shawnee, said the House Republican caucus had decided not to hear Senate Bill 1433, which already had passed the Senate. Noting that […]
April 21, 2012
NewsOK, April 21, 2012 by Michael McNutt Oklahoma ‘personhood’ bill won’t get hearing on House floor, Speaker Kris Steele says. Opponents of the bill feared it could lead to restrictions on abortions, birth control, in-vitro fertilization and stem cell research. Leaders with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma urged state legislators to have a public […]
April 21, 2012
Tulsa World, April 21, 2012 by Bill Sherman SAND SPRINGS – A minister is mounting a campaign to get churches involved in a ballot initiative to extend legal rights to the unborn. The Rev. Robert Haling prepared 29 packets on the ballot initiative and delivered them to Sand Springs churches. The packets tell churches how […]
April 20, 2012
RH Reality Check, April 20, 2012 by Robin Marty More women will be asked (or forced) to listen to a fetal or embryonic heartbeat prior to terminating a pregnancy, as “heartbeat bills” continue to advance through the state legislatures of Louisiana and Oklahoma. The Louisiana heartbeat bill would require that equipment be available in each room […]
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