States Take a Stand on Value of Human Life: Oklahoma Protects Unborn Babies from Abortion, Colorado Dismisses Their Humanity
April 14, 2022 | Oklahoma
In just the span of about a week, legislation in two states concerning ending the lives of unborn babies starkly reveals that while many state lawmakers are standing up to protect human life, some appear to be underscoring the extremity with which they are prepared to go to dismiss it.
The states continue to take their respective stands in advance of the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, now awaiting a decision at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is considered to present the most significant challenge to the Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973.
On Tuesday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed the Life at Conception Act into law, which bans ending the lives of unborn babies in most circumstances, except those to save the life of the mother, and will make performing an abortion a felony…. (Excerpt from the Virginia Star)
