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PRESS RELEASE: OKGOP Censures Republican Legislators Who Killed Bill That Would Have Abolished Abortion

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Saturday April 3rd, at Crossroads Church in OKC, The Republican Party resoundingly passed a resolution, “[…] Condemning and Censuring Todd Gollihare, Darcy Jech, Brent Howard and Paul Rosino’s Vote Against SB456, the Abolition of Abortion, and Equal Protection for Preborn Children”

The text of the resolution is as follows:

WHEREAS, on February 19th, 2025, Republican Oklahoma State Senators Todd Gollihare, Darcy Jech, Brent Howard, and Paul Rosino voted “No” on SB456, the Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act, and

WHEREAS, SB456 would have abolished abortion in Oklahoma by providing the equal protection of the laws to preborn children from the moment of conception, and

WHEREAS, the failure of SB456 to pass committee means that self-managed abortion remains legal in Oklahoma with an estimated 3,274 self-managed abortions occurring annually in our state under the color of our laws, and

WHEREAS, no other bill up for consideration this session would have any significant impact on self-managed abortion in Oklahoma, and

WHEREAS, protecting the rights of the innocent is the greatest obligation of all public officials, and the mass murder of children in Oklahoma via self-managed abortion and the loopholes in the homicide code that allow it to continue represent the greatest injustice in our society, and

WHEREAS, the Oklahoma Republican Party platform states, “We believe that at the point of conception (including in vitro fertilization [IVF]), a person is granted the rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution; therefore, civil authorities have a duty before God to uphold justice by establishing equal protection under the law for all preborn children,” and

WHEREAS, the Oklahoma Republican Party platform states, “We believe intentional abortion is contrary to the Word of God and is murder according to Exodus 23:7,” and

WHEREAS, the Oklahoma Republican Party platform states, “Be it resolved that the abolition of abortion be brought to a full floor vote in the Oklahoma Legislature,” and

WHEREAS, Todd Gollihare, Darcy Jech, Brent Howard, and Paul Rosino’s opposition to the Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act is in blatant violation of the Word of God, the OKGOP platform, the Oklahoma Baptists resolution, and the Oklahoma Association of Free Will Baptists resolution, now be it therefore

RESOLVED, that the Oklahoma Republican Party strongly condemns Todd Gollihare, Darcy Jech, Brent Howard, and Paul Rosino for their February 19th vote against the abolition of abortion and their opposition to equal protection for preborn children, and be it further

RESOLVED, that their vote in opposition to the abolition of abortion and equal protection for preborn children represents so great an injustice and so great a violation of the Word of God and the OKGOP platform that the Oklahoma Republican Party encourages Republicans in Oklahoma to withhold all support from their political careers.

The resolution passed with barely any opposition:

A resolution like this is a formal rebuke against these senators, and while it doesn’t functionally do anything like censuring them in the Senate, it does send a message that what they did was noticed by their own party, and it won’t be tolerated.

Several of these men are up for re-election in 2026, and something like this on their record presents a massive obstacle to their future political careers.

SB456, the Abolition of Abortion Act, would have merely affirmed that life, which begins at fertilization, is protected under our laws for homicide, wrongful death, and manslaughter. It repeals the current exception which creates “special murder rights” for mothers, giving them legal immunity in the death of their own unborn child

Title 63 §1-733 of the Oklahoma Statutes states:

“No woman shall perform or induce an abortion upon herself, except under the supervision of a duly licensed physician. Any physician who supervises a woman in performing or inducing an abortion upon herself shall fulfill all the requirements of this article which apply to a physician performing or inducing an abortion.”

This single line keeps abortion legal in Oklahoma, and it happens in the thousands, even though many in Oklahoma – even Conservative leaders – pretend that abortion has already been abolished. Abolitionists have been loudly proclaiming otherwise since the fall of Roe, but legislators have pretended they don’t hear them. As they continue in this farce, Oklahomans will continue rebuking them, and God willing, replacing them.

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