as far as overruling roe v. wade which would then entitle states to completely outlaw abortion. so a lot at stake as we head into the final weeks of the supreme court s term here. kate? good points, good to see you. thank you for that. joining me is cecile richards, president of american bridge. planned parenthood said when it comes to oklahoma that its oklahoma clinics have seen a nearly 2,500% increase in patients coming from texas after that law took effect. what then is the impact going to be of there b of this bill in oklahoma? well, i mean, this bill or bills, as you say, are they are cruel and inhumane and unconstitutional. and it has created this crisis in that many women where texas essentially banned most most abortions, most legal abortions last september, and so many women have turned to oklahoma,
globally we ve been seeing a trend. globally the trend is moving in one direction which is from columbia in february to mexico in september to argentina legalizing abortion in 2020. globally it seems to be moving one way, and then in the united states, as we ve been talking about all of these states, it appears to be moving the other direction. what do you see in that? well, i mean, kate, that is the irony here. one, of course access to safe and legal abortion has been a constitutional right for women for nearly 50 years in the united states. so this is this supreme court is poised to up-end a right that most of us have grown up with having our entire lifetime. the difference in this country is that the republican party, one of our two major parties, has made it their primary issue to end access to safe and legal abortion for their own political purposes. access to legal abortion is
abortions after about six weeks. effectively a ban on abortions says that is often before many women even know they are pregnant. jessica schneider is tracking this for us and joins us now. this is really directly modeled after what s now law in texas. what are you learning about it? reporter: it is. really, kate, oklahoma has been at the forefront here. they have been passing and proposing a really wide array of anti-abortion measures in recent weeks. so this most recent one, the six-week ban, it s modeled after texas law. it passed last night. it bans abortions typically around six weeks and gives the four private citizens to sue to enforce the law. you know, more significantly is earlier this month oklahoma s governor also signed a law that completely outlaws abortion except in a medical emergency. it imposes penalties of up to ten years in prison, a $100,000 fine for doctors who perform abortions. so oklahoma is really restricting abortions or trying to at every turn here.
they re passing a number of laws. so the difference is the six-week ban, it will go into effect immediately when the governor signs it which he says he will. the complete abortion ban, it isn t set to take effect until august. and this really goes to the larger trend we re seeing in several maybe republican-led states. they re increasingly emboenlded by the supreme court s refusal to first block that texas law that has effectively stopped abortions in the state since september, and these states also have this widespread belief based on the oral arguments we heard in december that the supreme court is poised to significantly roll back abortion rights, if not completely overturn roe v. wade, and kate, that would allow states to ban abortion outright. we ve seen a flurry of states enacting abortion restrictions, and again they re all doing this because of the signals that they re getting from the supreme court. we are waiting on that all-important supreme court decision that would decide