Anti-abortion group backs law putting restrictions on Oklahoma's initiative process
OKLAHOMA CITY – An anti-abortion group is asking the Oklahoma Supreme Court to uphold a new law putting more restrictions on the initiative petition process after residents in other states used it to expand abortion access.
Oklahomans for Life is arguing that Senate Bill 1027 should be allowed to stand because the new requirements it adds to the initiative petition process will help expose the powerful national interests working to infiltrate local lawmaking.
Oklahoma has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation, allowing the procedure only to save the life of the mother.
But since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that allowed states to determine abortion access, “abortion-rights groups have increasingly turned to well-financed ballot initiatives to override duly-elected state legislatures and enact constitutional protections for abortion access,” the group wrote in its brief.
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