AG asks Supreme Court to review abortion case
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Attorney General Scott Pruitt
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that invalidated a state anti-abortion statute.
The state's highest court ruled in December that the anti-abortion law was ``facially unconstitutional'' and that a lower court judge was right to prevent its enforcement. The law restricted the off-label use of certain abortion-inducing drugs, such as RU-486.
Pruitt said in a statement on Tuesday that Oklahoma's law passed by state lawmakers in 2011 does not ban the drugs but requires proper protocols to be followed. He says there is strong evidence that the off-label use of abortion-inducing drugs leads to serious infections and death for many healthy, unsuspecting women.
Pruitt's appeal, filed on Monday, challenges the state Supreme Court's ruling.
Copyright 2013, The Associated Press
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