Oklahoma May Enforce Second-Trimester Abortion Method Ban

Oklahoma may enforce a ban on the most commonly used method for previability abortions performed 14 weeks or more after a woman’s last menstrual period.

Oklahoma County, Okla., District Court Judge Cindy Truong denied Tulsa Women’s Reproductive Clinic’s request to strike H.B. 1721 in a July 12 bench ruling. The law bars dilation and evacuation abortions, a procedure in which a physician dilates a woman’s cervix and removes the fetus from the uterus.

This is the first court decision in the country to uphold a law prohibiting the standard method for ending a pregnancy during the second trimester, the Center ...