Abortion Providers Sue Oklahoma Over Texas-Like Six-Week Ban (1)

Abortion rights groups and providers in Oklahoma called on the state’s top court to stop implementation of a six-week ban that, like a similar Texas law, will be enforced through private civil lawsuits.

The law, known as S.B. 1503, prohibits doctors from performing abortions after detecting an embryonic heart beat, a petition filed Thursday in the Oklahoma Supreme Court says. There are no exceptions for rape, interest, or fetal health conditions, it says.

But Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor (R) told Bloomberg Law his office “will do everything it can to ensure that these plaintiffs do not succeed in further ...