Ali Block
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That's Kaylee, the clinic director at the Oklahoma City Clinic called Trust Women.
What they experienced at the Trust Women Clinic after SB8 was a microcosm of how the Dobbs decision would create its own immense downstream effects.
Think of abortion access like a river.
There was this stream of people from Texas who had been receiving care from the local clinics, but who had suddenly been turned away.
It was like the river had been dammed.
And crucially for many of those patients, the new barriers and restrictions were prohibitive enough that they weren't able to pass the dam at all and seek abortions in other states.
But what also happened was that the stream of patients who were able to gather together the resources necessary to travel, time off work, money for travel expenses, childcare, those patients were diverted elsewhere, and Trust Women was there to receive them.
Meanwhile, the clinic was also bracing for the possibility that this political move in Texas might be writing on the wall for Oklahoma.
It wasn't before long that they saw a copycat bill, one that replicated the language of SB eight.
But this time for Oklahoma.
It started as a direct copycat, the same six weeks deal.
But as it passed through the House and Senate, the language on the bill tightened up.
This time Oklahoma wasn't actually less effective.
The new bill ended up being more restrictive than SB eight.
By May 2022, Oklahoma had a near total ban.
Kiernan told us that to them, in some ways it was even more devastating than Dobbs.
restrictions had been stacking up for a long time in Oklahoma, like they had in so many states, held only at bay by the thin membrane of Roe v.
Wade.
When Roe fell, it caused an immediate trigger ban to go into effect in Oklahoma, making abortions at any stage in pregnancy punishable as a felony.
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