Wednesday, June 06, 2007

I got an email on the interwebs:

Thanks to everyone who joined National Advocates for Pregnant Women on
and/or inquired about our May 4th call with five fantastic Oklahoma
reproductive justice activists who had recently succeeded in
preventing SB 714 from being passed into law. SB 714 would have made
abortions illegal in state hospitals.

As many of you already learned late last month through Feministing,
http://feministing.com/archives/007077.html anti-choice activists
ultimately prevailed. Just weeks after our call, and less than 7 days
before the close of the OK state legislative session, OK Governor
Henry, a Democrat, allowed a similar bill--only with provisions for
rape and incest--to become law by taking no action on the legislation.

We here at NAPW are deeply concerned about this emerging trend (i.e.,
banning abortion is okay if you provide exceptions for rape and
incest), and will continue to actively support local grassroots
activists who are fighting these measures. Our organizational mission
remains the same: to ensure the rights of all pregnant women, whether
they are continuing their pregnancies to term or seek abortion.

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