OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – If a corporation “aids and abets” an abortion, then it can be faced with a lawsuit from anyone in Oklahoma.
House Bill 4327 allows for anyone to sue a person, or company, that willingly helps a woman obtain an abortion, “including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise.”
Following the overturning of Roe v Wade, many companies publicly pledged to support their employees’ rights to abortion access – even if the state they lived in made it illegal.
Joseph Thai, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, said that because the language of the law extends to anyone that “aids and abets,” then employee benefits that offer travel reimbursements for abortions could make corporations liable to civil penalties.
“If a company provides benefits that allows women to go out of state or to reimburse women for the cost of, you know, getting abortion pills, then they would be civilly liable under this law,” said Thai.
Greg Treat, Republican Senate Pro Tempore, said the law was – in part – designed to prevent that from happening.
“We’re talking about somebody who offers $4,000 to have their baby’s life terminated,” said Treat.
The Senator questions the intentions of businesses that were so quick to offer travel benefits to their employees.
“I think some of these companies (sic) are run by people who are no longer interested in profit but are interested in pushing a social agenda,” said Treat.
He added that there have not...
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