![]() Plaintiff(s): Nova Health Systems d/b/a Reproductive ServicesĬenter Attorney(s): Autumn Katz, Molly DuaneĬo-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Blake Patton at Walding &, Patton The state Supreme Court temporarily blocked the clinic shutdown law from taking effect in November 2014 and a state court permanently blocked the restrictions on medication abortion last month.īoth measures were signed into law by Governor Mary Fallin this past spring and are slated to take effect on November 1, 2015. The Center also successfully challenged the state’s Texas-style clinic shutdown law and most recently passed restrictions on medication abortion. This lawsuit is the eighth time in five years that the Center for Reproductive Rights has challenged unconstitutional restrictions on reproductive health care in Oklahoma, including a lawsuit filed in September 2015 challenging an omnibus measure that blatantly violates the Oklahoma Constitution’s single subject rule. state to force women to delay constitutionally protected health care for at least three days, the longest waiting period in the country. The second measure, HB1409, triples the state’s mandatory waiting period from 24 to 72 hours for all women seeking abortion services–making Oklahoma the fifth U.S. The first measure, HB 1721, bans the most commonly used method of ending a pregnancy in the second trimester-which could force some women to undergo additional invasive, unnecessary procedures, incur additional costs, delay their care, or even lose access to abortion services entirely. (REVISED 1.19.22) This lawsuit challenges two Oklahoma measures which threaten to make safe and legal abortion even harder to obtain in a state with only two abortion providers. Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
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