White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre full-throatedly condemned a new abortion bill Oklahoma's Legislature passed Thursday. She called it 'extreme,' 'absurd' and 'ultra-MAGA.'
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. "The President believes that women have the fundamental right to make their own reproductive health choices," Jean-Pierre noted, adding that the Supreme Court decision Roe v.
Wade"has been the law of the land for almost 50 years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned.""Today’s action by the Oklahoma legislature is the most extreme effort to undo these fundamental rights we have seen to date," the press secretary said."In addition, it adopts Texas’ absurd plan to allow private citizens to sue their neighbors for providing reproductive health care and helping women to exercise their constitutional rights." "This is part of a growing effort by ultra MAGA officials across the country to roll back the freedoms we should not take for granted in this country," Jean-Pierre added, referencing a Biden administration term playing off of former President Trump's 2016 slogan,"Make America Great Again." She claimed that Trump-style Republicans"are starting with reproductive rights, but the American people need to know that other fundamental rights, including the right to contraception and marriage equality, are at risk."As Jean-Pierre noted, H.B. 4327 empowers non-governmental actors to bring civil suits against people who perform or aid and abet abortions, and damages for violating the law will be set at a minimum of $10,000 per abortion.that prohibits abortions after cardiac activity can be detected in the embryo, which is around six weeks. It also allows private citizens to sue anyone who helps a woman acquire an abortion for up to $10,000. Stitt signed another bill that will make performing abortion a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That will take effect later this year.OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR SIGNS TEXAS-STYLE ABORTION BAN INTO LAW "This ban will take effect as soon as the governor signs the bill, making Oklahoma the first state to outlaw abortion entirely — even while Roe v. Wade still stands," the organization said in a statement on Twitter."[Planned Parenthood] and partners are taking Oklahoma to court." "Today, Oklahoma passed a law effectively banning abortion from the moment of fertilization—the latest in a series of blatant attacks on women by extremist legislators," Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted in response to the bill's passage."It has never been more urgent that we elect pro-choice leaders at the local, state, and federal level." Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Tribal Nations Summit on the White House campus, Nov. 16, 2021."Oklahomans are sending a strong message that all unborn children and their mothers in the Sooner State deserve urgent protection from the brutality of abortion," Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement Thursday."Science shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that unborn babies are human beings, with beating hearts by six weeks and the ability to feel pain by 15 weeks." "Oklahoma’s strong pro-life protections could save as many as 3,800 lives a year," Dannenfelser added."In contrast to the Biden-Harris administration that gives abortionists a platform to push a radical agenda, Governor Stitt and the legislature are standing up for the will of the people who overwhelmingly want to protect their most vulnerable citizens."
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