An Oklahoma judge has struck down an anti-abortion law that restricted the use of abortion-inducing drugs.
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“What this law was really about was interfering with the practice of medicine and making it more hard for women to access safe abortion services”, Katz said.
The law was passed in 2014, but had not gone into effect yet.
That statute was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Similar hospital-affiliation laws have been blocked in Wisconsin, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. But the judge called the special law unconstitutional and said the state was singling out the medication because it is used for abortions.
It prohibited off-label uses of abortion-inducing drugs by requiring doctors to administer them only in accordance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration protocols. The ruling couldn’t be immediately confirmed in court records.
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The cases are Burns v. Cline, 113342, and Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice v. Cline, 113355, Oklahoma Supreme Court (Oklahoma City).
