White House slams Oklahoma’s ‘ultra MAGA officials’ over abortion bill

The White Dwelling on Thursday employed its “ultra MAGA” line to slam Oklahoma lawmakers who authorized a Texas-design abortion invoice mentioned to be the most restrictive in the country.

In a statement introduced in reaction to the bill’s passing previously in the day, White Dwelling push secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warned that the legislation is section of “a escalating effort and hard work by ultra MAGA officials throughout the region to roll back the freedoms we really should not choose for granted in this place.”

“They are beginning with reproductive rights, but the American persons need to know that other fundamental rights, together with the ideal to contraception and marriage equality, are at threat,” the assertion reads.

The evaluate would prohibit all abortions other than in occasions wherever the being pregnant is the end result of rape or incest that had been noted or in circumstances the place a being pregnant would save the life of a expecting woman.

Oklahoma’s legislature handed the invoice before Thursday in a mostly bash-line 73-16 vote. Gov. Kevin Stitt is anticipated to sign the monthly bill into regulation.

Ms. Jean-Pierre stated the legislation is “the most extreme energy to undo these fundamental rights we have seen to day.”

Before this month a draft Supreme Court docket impression that would reverse the 1973 Roe V. Wade determination and leave abortion law up to the states was leaked to the press causing outrage among Democrats.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday decried in a virtual meeting with abortion suppliers what she states would be a regression of women’s legal rights in the U.S. must the Supreme Court docket reverse Roe.

“The power of our state has generally been that we fight to move forward, that we consider in the growth of legal rights, not the restriction of legal rights,” she explained. “So this, when and if it takes place, will be an extraordinary move backward. And it signifies a menace not just to women of all ages, but to all Individuals.”