{"id":266004,"date":"2022-04-11T18:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T23:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=266004"},"modified":"2022-04-11T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:31:16","slug":"oklahoma-abortion-law-cruel-real-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/oklahoma-abortion-law-cruel-real-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood claims Oklahoma abortion law is cruel – but this is the real cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oklahoma is poised to protect nearly all preborn children<\/a>, with the added and medically unnecessary<\/a> exception to save the life of the mother. Senate Bill 612<\/a> passed the House last week and now awaits Governor Kevin Stitt’s signature. Anyone found guilty of committing an abortion would face a felony charge, up to 10 years in prison, and a $100,000 fine \u2014 penalties that are for the abortionist only and not the mother. Unsurprisingly, the abortion industry is furious over the possibility of this bill’s passage, with Planned Parenthood specifically calling the bill “cruel.” Yet they seem to have forgotten the cruelty they perpetuate on preborn children each and every day.<\/p>\n

USA Today recently profiled<\/a> the response of “health care groups” to the bill, which in reality, meant Planned Parenthood, the Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood’s former research arm), the ACLU, and other abortion organizations. Renee Bracey Sherman, a long-time abortion activist and executive director of the pro-abortion group We Testify, called the legislation an effort to “ban abortion in the most sadistic and cruel ways possible.”<\/p>\n

Yet what is truly cruel is abortion itself, on all levels \u2014\u00a0both to women and preborn children.<\/p>\n

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Many abortion procedures are committed when preborn children can already feel pain<\/a>. While this often means pain for the child, it can also mean terrible pain for the mother as well.<\/p>\n

Chemical abortions, or abortion pills, are now the most common<\/a> method of abortion. The procedure begins when a woman takes mifepristone (or RU-486), which blocks progesterone and causes the lining of the woman\u2019s uterus to break down, starving the baby of the nutrients he needs to survive. Some time later (traditionally one to two days), she takes misoprostol, which triggers contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from her womb. This can cause severe cramping, contractions, and heavy bleeding, as well as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headaches. Some women have died, usually due to infection or undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Five abortion pill dangers every woman should know<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It has also been increasingly common for abortionists to embrace the “no test<\/a>” protocol, meaning the woman will take the abortion pill at home without receiving a blood test or an ultrasound first, making it impossible to determine the true gestational age, whether she has an extrauterine pregnancy, or whether she has any contraindications for the abortion pill. Data has shown the abortion pill to be four times more dangerous<\/a> than first-trimester surgical abortion, and it has caused severe pain and trauma<\/a>\u00a0for many women.<\/p>\n