OKLAHOMA, USA — An Oklahoma judge has temporarily blocked two new anti-abortion laws from taking effect next month, including a measure that would prevent abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
District Judge Cindy Truong on Monday (Oct. 4) ruled that she would allow three other ones to take effect Nov. 1 that one abortion rights advocate says will be “catastrophic" to the ability of women to access abortion services.
Those three would create new restrictions on medication-induced abortions and require all doctors who perform abortions to be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology.
An attorney for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which challenged the new laws, says the center plans to appeal the ruling to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.