OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) – A freshman Senator has filed a bill that would charge Oklahoma women who get an abortion with murder.
Senate Bill 1729 , also known as the Abolition of Abortion Act, follows the “image of God.”
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“It’s very simple. It seeks to take the exception for prenatal homicide, which is abortion, out of the homicide code and make it give equal protection under the law to all lives from the moment of conception to natural death,” stated Senator Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin.
The proposal states an abortion can only be justified if it’s to save the mother’s or unborn child’s life. The other exception is a spontaneous miscarriage.
Reasons that don’t fall under that umbrella, like rape and incest, would punish the mother.
The bill would charge her with murder.
“We want people to get the care they need. But when we create these very limited and dangerous bills, with these limited exceptions, we know that has a true impact on just health care in general and pregnancy outcomes,” stated the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma Executive Director and Chair for the Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Rights, Tamaya Cox-Toure.