Anti-abortion measure stalls in Oklahoma House

An anti-abortion bill that would ask Oklahoma voters to specify the state constitution does not protect the right to an abortion will not advance this legislative session.

But the bill’s author, reinvigorated by a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling that protects a woman’s right to an abortion, promised to revive the legislation next year, in time for the measure to go to a statewide vote during the 2020 general election.

Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat’s Senate Bill 195 failed to advance through the House before a legislative deadline last week. The proposed amendment to Oklahoma’s constitution would stipulate that no part of the document protects the right to perform or receive an abortion.

Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said he told House Speaker Charles McCall and House Majority Floor Leader Rep. Jon Echols he was indifferent on whether the legislation passed this year or next so long as the constitutional amendment made it on the ballot in 2020.

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