Posted on 05/08/2022 1:10:37 AM PDT by Morgana
An Oklahoma law went into effect Tuesday, banning abortions after about six weeks, a day after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion indicates the likely end of Roe v. Wade.
On Wednesday morning, Andrea Gallegos answered a call from a patient who was running late for her appointment at the Tulsa Women’s Clinic, one of four abortion clinics in Oklahoma.
But Gallegos, the clinic's executive administrator, quickly realized that the woman had missed a message left for her the night before. On Tuesday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law banning abortions after the detection of cardiac activity, which usually occurs around six weeks into a pregnancy.
"Unfortunately, I had to explain, 'I’m so sorry ... but you know, this law just passed,'" Gallegos said.
The woman guessed she was seven or eight weeks along.
"She said, 'You know, I was raped, I’m pregnant because I was raped. Surely you can still help me.' And I had to explain that unfortunately, this law makes no exception for rape or incest."
The only exceptions to Oklahoma's new law are for situations in which the mother’s life is in danger.
The legislation copies a similar law in Texas, which took effect in September. It allows private citizens to sue anyone who provides abortion care or helps someone obtain an abortion, and receive $10,000 for each suit that succeeds. Because it doesn't empower the state to enforce the abortion ban, the policy skirts protections afforded under Roe v. Wade, the ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court declined to block the Texas law, although it allowed state-level lawsuits to proceed.
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I more than half expected to get shredded for my skepticism about her claim and have been somewhat surprised that I have not.
But am grateful.
Thanks.
This is such BS, first of all when you go to the hospital after being raped they give you the morning after pill JUST IN CASE!! This story is completely made up and ANYONE with half a brain cell knows it!!
They give you pills at the ER to prevent pregnancy. But maybe it wasn’t rape rape.
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