Last Tuesday, the Oklahoma legislature passed an anti-abortion bill that criminalizes health care providers for performing abortions at any time during a woman’s pregnancy and provides only a narrow exception to save the mother’s life. It is the latest bill to be initially modeled after Texas’s controversial and contested “heartbeat bill” that not only prohibits abortion, but incentivizes citizens to sue people who aid or abet the practice.
After the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Texas bill to stand, state lawmakers were emboldened to create their own copycats. There are at least 35 bills modeled after the “vigilante loophole,” according to The Washington Post.
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