{"id":14756,"date":"2016-05-21T00:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14756"},"modified":"2016-05-21T00:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:35:45","slug":"thanks-for-listening-gov-fallin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14756","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for listening, Gov. Fallin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin likely didn’t read my earlier blog post about a bill that landed on her desk that would have made abortion illegal in her state.<\/p>\n

Then again …<\/p>\n

OK, I’ll take all the credit I deserve. How’s that?<\/p>\n

Fallin vetoed Senate Bill 1552 this afternoon, calling it too ambiguous. The Republican governor remains fervently pro-life, but she’s also a realist. She knows that SB 1552 likely wouldn’t withstand a constitutional challenge.<\/p>\n

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Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in most cases, remains the law of the land. That’s the entire<\/em> land, which includes Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

There actually was a voice of reason among the Oklahoma legislators who sent SB 1552 to Fallin’s desk. It came from a Republican senator, who also happens to be a physician.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ervin Yen was the lone GOP senator to vote against the legislation. He described it as “insane.”<\/p>\n

I’d bet real American money that Gov. Fallin likely disagrees with the insane description. Still, she did the right thing by vetoing a bill that clearly violated established federal law.<\/p>\n\n

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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin likely didn’t read my earlier blog post about a bill that landed on her desk that would have made abortion illegal in her state. Then again … OK, I’ll take all the credit I deserve. How’s that? Fallin vetoed Senate Bill 1552 this afternoon, calling it too ambiguous. The Republican governor … Continue reading Thanks for listening, Gov. Fallin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[122,6233,2941,6234],"class_list":["post-14756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-abortion","tag-anti-abortion-bill","tag-mary-fallin","tag-oklahoma-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14759,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions\/14759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}