It didn't take long for Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, to veto a bill passed by the state's legislature that called for prison terms of up to three years for doctors who perform abortions.
As WND reported, Oklahoma's state Senate had passed the measure on Thursday after it cleared the House. The bill, SB 1552, classified the act of performing an abortion in the state a felony – in direct challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's precedent.
SB 1552, from Sen. Nathan Dahm of Broken Arrow, also provided for the "revocation of medical licenses for physicians who perform abortions." However, it allowed an exemption for abortion considered necessary to save the life of the mother.
"I believe that is a core function of state government to defend that life from the beginning of conception," Dahm told the Tulsa World.
A spokeswoman for the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, Amanda Allen, warned it would be the most extreme abortion law in the country, the newspaper said.
When Fallin vetoed the legislation, her office argued that the bill wouldn't withstand a criminal constitutional legal challenge.
"The bill is so ambiguous and so vague that doctors cannot be certain what medical circumstances would be considered 'necessary to preserve the life of the mother,'" Fallin said, in a statement from her office to Reuters.
Fallin has been called "the most pro-life governor in the nation."
Since she became governor in 2011, Oklahoma has added several restrictions on abortions.
"Governor Fallin did the right thing today in vetoing this utterly unconstitutional and dangerous bill," Nancy Northup, president and chief executive officer of the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, told Reuters.
CNN reported that the legislature in South Carolina adopted a bill banning abortions after 19 weeks. It passed the House 79-29.
The state level actions stand in stark contrast to the federal government, which is expanding the abortion industry in nearly every way it can.
Most recently, the Obama administration approved for expanded use the controversial abortion drug combination known as RU-486.
The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, which recently clamped down on e-cigarettes and some tobacco products to protect the health of children, is allowing women seeking abortions to take the RU-486 regimen until the 10th week of pregnancy. Previously, the limit was seven weeks.
RU-486 is a two-drug regimen. The first starves the unborn baby of nutrients, leading the child to die. Live Action Founder and President Lila Rose says at 10 weeks, that baby is further developed than many realize.
"The heart is beating," she told WND and Radio America. "The brain is forming, leg and arm buds. By the end of the first trimester, the child has all his internal organs and body parts. He just needs time and nourishment to grow. You're talking about a fairly developed pre-born child."
The second drug is even more powerful.
"The second drug induces labor," Rose said. "It makes a woman bleed out her entire pregnancy as well as the pre-born child. That process can take up to two days."
In addition to the FDA giving its approval for RU-486 for an additional three weeks, Rose said it also allows abortion providers to provide less medical supervision. She said that is a recipe for disaster.
"A teen girl could get these drugs, self-administer the pills and without any parent's knowledge or consent in many states, be bleeding out her pregnancy in a forced miscarriage without a doctor involved," Rose said.
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Lila Rose:
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