already, oklahoma has one of the highest incarceration rates for women in general. to have to justify the need for an abortion, to have to prove that you ve been raped, is cruel. it s torture. rebecca, i wanna make sure i m getting this right, because i know we have highlighted the most restrictive of oklahoma s new abortion laws. but there as i understand it three new laws going on the books, sometimes these laws are contradictory and it seems confusion is the goal here, right? confusion and fear, especially with the civilian enforcement bounty-style laws. their hope is to make our staff, our physicians, our vendors, so fearful that they will not work with us anymore. that has been the tactic for
every single pregnancy. we know that the people who will get criminalized for self manage abortions will not be wealthy, white women. it will be trans people. it will be all she lgbtqia people of all colors. and this is who our country decides to criminalize for pregnancies. already, oklahoma has one of the highest incarceration rates for women in general. to have to justify the need for an abortion, to have to prove that you ve been raped, is cruel. it s torture. rebecca, i wanna make sure i m getting this right, because i know we highlighted the most restrictive of oklahoma s new abortion laws. by understand is three new laws going on the books, sometimes these laws are contradictory and it seems confusion is the goal here, right?
news here out of washington. the aftermath of that leaked draft decision on roe v. wade on the supreme court. several affirming their decision to put in place these trigger laws, to trigger abortion bans if roe v. wade gets struck down. check out this map here. you ve got more than a dozen states, 13 of them, that would put in place an abortion ban by way of a trigger law, meaning as soon as the court decides to overturn roe, if that happens, the process begins. in so many states it takes typically like 30 days. some state leaders aren t waiting. oklahoma just passed a six-week ban similar to the texas law on the books. you remember that controversial one, the most restrictive. joining me is yasmin vossoughian outside the supreme court and