new OK bill would put restrictions on IUDs and revoke the over counter status of Plan B, track women's abortions [View all]

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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House Public Health Committee passed a bill Wednesday that its own author said needs major work before it is brought to a vote before the full House chamber.

House Bill 3216, also known at the Oklahoma Right To Human Life Act

"What this bill is attempting to do is maintain the bills the legislature has overwhelmingly passed over the past couple of years that got overturned by the Oklahoma Supreme Court by using their language," said Moore Republican Kevin West who authored the bill.

The bill is broken up into multiple sections:

Defining an emergency
Defining that life begins at conception
Requiring a doctor to submit the name of the patient who received an abortion, but that name would then be assigned a number for privacy reasons to be listed in a database maintained by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. That database could be used to see how many abortions a certain patient has received and when possibly over the course of her life. Only under a court order could those full medical records be released.
Within 30-days, a doctor would be required to submit a written justification under oath of why the abortion was performed and his or her rationale for declaring the emergency. False information would lead to a suspension of their medical license for one year.
There would be new restrictions placed on intrauterine devices (IUDs), especially ones used for contraceptive purposes.
Some contraceptive medications like Plan B and The Morning After Pill would have their over the counter status revoked, and it would only be made available if prescribed by a doctor first.

West said his bill was written in partnership with the conservative legal defense fund Alliance Defending Freedom, and he said after hearing committee members concerns on multiple sections, major changes to the bill would need to be made. He said he was open to addressing both Democratic and Republican concerns before the bill reaches the full House chamber next month.

All of Oklahoma's abortion clinics have been shuttered since the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobb's decision, but some lawmakers are still concerned people are freely having abortions within their home using medications they bought online or through other means that are mailed to them.

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