Monday, January 15, 2007 Lawmakers Seek To Build On Anti-Abortion Laws
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) State lawmakers already have filed several anti-abortion bills to build on restrictions approved by legislators in recent years. Federal statistics show about 7-thousand abortions have been performed in Oklahoma each year during the past decade.
Oklahoma lawmakers passed several anti-abortion measures in 2005 and 2006, including provisions requiring written parental consent for a minor to have an abortion.
It has yet to be seen if those changes have led to a reduction in abortions in Oklahoma.
Republican state Senator Brian Crain wants to change the legal definition of abortion to include the practice of using drugs to kill a fetus before it is removed.
Another measure Crain expects to file next week would prohibit insurance companies from covering state employees for abortion procedures.
Posted at 1/15/2007 12:29:00 PM
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