As soon as Texas enacted its six-week ban, people started fleeing the state for abortions. Experts say no state has absorbed more of them than Oklahoma, where abortions remain legal until the 22nd week of pregnancy. But that could change soon.
The gut-wrenching news came in two parts: The flickering was a sign of cardiac activity, which meant the woman could not get an abortion under Texas’ six-week ban. And while the doctor, Alan Braid, said he would refer her to a sister clinic in Oklahoma, where he has sent hundreds of other patients since the law took effect last year, she would need to hurry. Lawmakers there were close to passing a law just as strict as the one in Texas.
Braid and his staff recently decided to start telling patients about the pending legislation in Oklahoma. A few miles from downtown Tulsa, the abortion clinic faces a park owned by the local Catholic diocese. Antiabortion protesters gather here every day, lining up with their rosaries in front of a towering white cross.On that Thursday, a third of the cars outside the clinic had Texas plates.
Treat has been fighting to end abortion access since he was elected over decade ago. For him and other Oklahoma legislators, he said, antiabortion policies are “at the core of who we are.”Sen. Julie Daniels , who sponsored a measure this session modeled after the Texas ban, said she deeply empathizes with women who find themselves pregnant unexpectedly. She agrees with her Democratic colleagues that lawmakers need to do more to support those women, she said.
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