Oklahoma Judge Allows Teens Over-Counter Birth-Control
Source: Bloomberg
An Oklahoma law requiring people under 17 to get a prescription for an emergency “morning-after” contraceptive pill was temporarily blocked by a state-court judge.
Judge Lisa T. Davis in Oklahoma City today granted a request by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights to enjoin enforcement of the measure, according to the court’s electronic docket.
Lawyers for the center argued in court papers that the law discriminated against women and attacked it on procedural grounds. Because it was the second topic in a bill signed into law by Governor Mary Fallin on May 29, it violated the state constitution’s “single subject” rule, the center said.
“Oklahoma women may rest assured that they will not be denied access to this important means of preventing unintended pregnancy,” an attorney for the center, David Brown, said in a statement after the court’s ruling.
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