A Tulsa, Okla., abortion clinic is asking the state supreme court to halt a ban on the most common method of performing second-trimester abortions while it readies an appeal from an order upholding the ban.
The state’s ban on previability abortions performed using the dilation and evacuation method after about 14 weeks of pregnancy will immediately eliminate access to abortion for Oklahoma women seeking to end their pregnancies, the Tulsa Women’s Reproductive Clinic LLC told the Oklahoma Supreme Court Oct. 3.
During a D&E procedure, a physician dilates a woman’s cervix and removes the fetus from the uterus. Abortion foes ...
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