On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, in order to make the Sooner State “ the most pro-life state in the country.”

“I want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country because I represent all four million Oklahomans who overwhelmingly want to protect the unborn,” he wrote on Twitter.

The bill, similar to a Texas law enforced in September, aims to sue any person or provider who “aids or abets” the termination of pregnancy after six weeks. It immediately goes into effect with the governor’s signature. 

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On Tuesday, Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected an appeal to briefly halt the bill. With the law in place, abortion providers have agreed to stop offering their services to women who have crossed six weeks of pregnancy.

 “While the law is in effect, which it now is because the governor signed it, abortion services after six weeks will be largely unavailable,” said Rabia Muqaddam, a lawyer for Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based organization presently representing abortion providers in Oklahoma.

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“It’s a short-term loss, but we’re hopeful that the Oklahoma Supreme Court will still grant us relief,” she added, according to AP.

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Oklahoma’s new bill bans abortions when an embryo reaches the stage of the detection of its cardiac activity, which usually occurs in six weeks of a pregnancy, a time when most women are not aware of being pregnant.

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Last year in September, a similar law was enforced in Texas which resulted in a massive drop in abortion figures in the state, with several women traveling to neighboring states like Oklahoma to terminate their pregnancy.