Oklahoma is playing games with people's lives

Oklahoma governor issues executive order demanding loyalty oaths and stripping funding from any healthcare entity that provides abortion - including those providing life-saving abortion care

Aug 01, 2025

UPDATE: Abegail Cave, a spokesperson for the governor, speaking to The Oklahoman, acknowledged that the executive order does apply to hospitals and doctors who provide life-saving abortions. (Aug. 2, 2025)

For decades, the movement against sexual and reproductive health and human rights (SRHR) has been steadily working towards their goal of abolishing all abortions, in all circumstances— even when necessary to preserve a pregnant patient’s health or save a pregnant patient’s life. Consider the words of Eugene Quay, one of the twentieth century's most influential faux-life activists and attorneys who promoted sexist myths about women, “real” rape, and pregnancies resulting from rape.1 In a 1960 article in the Georgetown Law Journal, Quay wrote, “A mother who would sacrifice the life of her unborn child for her own health is lacking in something… It would [] be in the interests of society to sacrifice such a mother rather than the child who might otherwise prove to be normal and decent and an asset.”2

This thoroughly anti-life movement has mostly been successful in Catholic countries whose cultures are pregnant with patriarchy, where violence against women is rampant, and where women's lives are devalued in law, such as Malta,3 the Dominican Republic,4 and El Salvador - the movement’s “Pro-life Paradise.”5 Faux-life activists, religious extremists, and White Supremacists are all working hard to turn America into El Salvador, they know they still don't have the popular support of the American public and so they're always coming up with creative ways to subvert the levers of democracy and shove their deeply unpopular agenda down everyone's throats.

Court fiat, executive branch power, shameless deception, voter suppression, campaign finance laws: there isn't an avenue in existence that faux-lifers won't exploit. Just look at their attempts to revivify and reinterpret a Victorian era zombie law, the Comstock Act, into a nationwide ban on even life-saving abortions.

Well, thanks to a layup from the Republican Supreme Court supermajority via the Court’s recent decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the faux-life governor of Oklahoma has come up with a new way to attack life-saving abortion care.

On July 31, 2025, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt issued an executive order immediately cutting off all public funding to “any individual or entity directly affiliated with a physician, medical practice, or other organization providing abortion…”

What are the only abortions allowed under Oklahoma's abortion ban? —Abortions necessary to save the pregnant patient’s life.

And who provides those life-saving abortions? —Hospitals that rely on public funding and the individual physicians working in those hospitals.

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The executive order issued by Stitt the Zealot also says “that all providers [must] submit a signed attestation disclosing whether they or any related entities engage in abortion-related activities,” like, ya know, literally saving pregnant patients’ lives; and it orders the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) to “initiate a comprehensive review and revision of its provider credentialing standards to ensure that only providers who are fully aligned with Oklahoma’s public policy objectives, including the protection of unborn life, are eligible to participate in [] SoonerCare,” the state's public Medicaid funding program. The OHCA is directed to “immediately terminate or decline to renew any contract, memorandum, or agreement, with or without cause, with any SoonerCare provider or entity that, in OHCA’s sole discretion, is not fully aligned with Oklahoma’s public policy objectives” (emphasis added).

In his executive order, Stitt the Zealot states that future funding will be revoked from any provider or entity that:

a) Performs, refers for, or is affiliated with the performance of abortions not permitted under state law; or
b) Is under common ownership or control with an entity engaged in abortion-related activities inconsistent with state law.

Does this mean that a Baptist or Methodist hospital within the state of Oklahoma that is affiliated with or a part of a network that also includes hospitals in Kansas that provide health-preserving abortions, which are sadistically prohibited in Oklahoma, will have their funding revoked? Who knows?

While this executive order might be another maneuver in Oklahoma’s ongoing desire to punish Planned Parenthood and other qualified reproductive healthcare providers, let's not pretend that Stitt the Zealot and other faux-lifers don't know that this executive order will scare physicians and hospitals into delaying and denying life-saving abortion care.

Hospitals depend upon public funding, including Medicaid reimbursement, to stay open. Faux-lifers know this. They know that they can condition public funding on adherence to their anti-life demands. And they know that threatening public Medicaid funding will prove to be effective at dissuading a “medical institution, hospital, or clinic, from providing abortion services, lest they [] be kicked off of Medicaid.”6

The only question is: How many will be scared out of providing or into delaying care until the last possible minute lest they run afoul of some ideologue at the OHCA and lose their public funding?

If Stitt the Zealot and the faux-lifers who helped him put together this executive order wanted to exclude hospitals - and the providers within those hospitals - from his executive order, they would have.

They chose not to.

The faux-life movement is playing with people's lives and they know it.

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Oklahoma is playing games with people's lives

Oklahoma governor issues executive order demanding loyalty oaths and stripping funding from any healthcare entity that provides abortion - including those providing life-saving abortion care

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