A reproductive rights advocate argued these bills will deter medical providers from practicing in Oklahoma, negatively impacting healthcare for everyone in the state. Medical providers are barred from providing abortions in Oklahoma unless it's necessary to protect the mother's life,

Republican state lawmakers in more than 10 states, including South Carolina, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia, Indiana, North Dakota and Oklahoma, have all introduced bills that would redefine abortion as homicide by defining a "person" or "human being" as inclusive of an "unborn" or "preborn" child.

A bipartisan coalition of state senators rebuffed a bill that could have subjected women who receive an abortion to the death penalty, but supporters are vowing to

On Thursday, the second attempt in modifying the state statutes on homicide to include abortion faced defeat with a vote of six to two.

Three Oklahoma lawmakers have sponsored a bill that would allow abortion recipients in the state to be charged with murder. Senate Bill 456 seeks to modify Oklahoma’s homicide s

Several other anti-abortion bills have yet to see a hearing in committee, including two from Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant: SB 883 and 884, one from Rep. Molly Jenkins, R-Coyle: HB 1724, and another from Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville: SB 989.

The Oklahoma Senate Judiciary Committee rejected several high-profile bills on Wednesday, including those on abortion, no-fault divorce, covenant marriage, and

With abortion policy left to the states, far-right GOP lawmakers in nearly a dozen ultraconservative states — already with some of the nation's strictest abortion bans — are trying to tighten the reigns even more for pregnant people by opening them up to murder charges.

Sen. Dusty Deevers’ (R-Elgin) second attempt at legislation that would adjust the state’s definition of homicide to include abortion failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

The bill's author is seeking to reintroduce Senate Bill 612, which was signed into law in 2022 and struck down by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in 2023.

In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 photo, abortion opponents cheer for a speaker at a rally at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City. Credit: AP/Sue Ogrocki House Speaker Jonathan Patterson, a Republican ...

Many of the bills filed in state legislatures across the country focus on abortion pills, abortion access for minors, and, in at least one state, how to undo protections for the procedure, The 19th reports.