On Monday, federal judge Charles Goodwin blocked Oklahoma Governor Kevin Sitt’s executive order, writing in his decision that the state “has acted in an ‘unreasonable,’ ‘arbitrary,’ and ‘oppressive’ way”
Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Just days into the national surge of coronavirus cases, as an increasing amount of states called for nonessential businesses to shut down, some Republican legislators began using the public health crisis as an opportunity to deny health care to patients seeking abortions.
Here’s a breakdown of what’s happening in each state where government agents have moved to ban or limit abortion access. Texas On March 23, Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, issued a warning that to be in compliance with Governor Greg Abbott’s recent executive order temporarily banning elective medical procedures, “any type of abortion that is not medically necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother” would be prohibited.
Alabama Alabama’s three remaining abortion clinics sought a temporary restraining order after the state’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, implied that the Alabama Department of Public Health’s March 27 order, which suspended elective medical procedures, could apply to patients seeking abortions.
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