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(Pregnancy Help News<\/a>)\u00a0On Friday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a budget bill into law which includes a $2 million appropriation for life-affirming pregnancy centers.<\/p>\n

The Choosing Childbirth Program, which was established by a 2017 law signed by then-governor Mary Fallin<\/a>, will provide funds for services such as ultrasounds, medical exams, counseling, parenting classes, maternity care,\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n

“The bill will provide much-needed funds to pro-life pregnancy resource centers which help vulnerable women during their pregnancies and after their babies are born,” said<\/a> Tony Lauinger, state chairman for Oklahomans for Life.<\/p>\n

To be eligible for a service grant under the Choosing Childbirth Act<\/a>, an applicant must be:<\/p>\n

1. Be registered with the Oklahoma Secretary of State as a not for-profit corporation located in Oklahoma;<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Have the grant amount approved by a grant-supervising entity;<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Provide each pregnant woman counseled with accurate information on the developmental characteristics of unborn children, including offering the printed information described in Section 1-738.3 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Assure that the grant’s sole purposes are to assist and encourage women to carry their children to term and to maximize their potentials thereafter; and<\/em><\/p>\n

5. Assure that none of the funds provided pursuant to the Choosing Childbirth Act, nor any other funds or services provided by the organization, are used to encourage or counsel a woman to have an abortion not necessary to prevent her death, to provide her such an abortion or to refer her for such an abortion.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Oklahoma governor signs bill granting foster families $5K tax exemption<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lauinger pointed to a number of other pro-life bills passed by the Oklahoma legislature this session and signed into law by Gov. Stitt.<\/p>\n

One of them, SB 614<\/a>, requires that an abortion patient be given information about the possibility of reversing\u00a0an in-progress chemical abortion.\u00a0Developed by physicians George Delgado and Matthew Harrison in 2007, abortion pill reversal<\/a>\u00a0empowers a mother to\u00a0reverse the effects of a\u00a0chemical abortion, saving her unborn child’s life. Since the Abortion Pill Rescue Network<\/a> was founded in 2012, the reversal protocol has saved the lives of 750 children.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at Pregnancy Help News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

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