Oklahoma Blocks Doctor Admission Law Limiting Abortions
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Oklahoma’s Supreme Court temporarily blocked enforcement of two state laws curbing women’s access to abortions, each enacted this year by Republican Governor Mary Fallin, who is up for re-election today.
The justices in a pair of two-paragraph orders unanimously blocked one provision requiring abortion clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and another curbing the use of abortion-inducing drugs. Each measure took effect on Nov. 1. The high court today halted them pending the final outcome of constitutional challenges.