Oklahoma lawmakers have passed a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony punishable by revocation of medical license, and three years in prison.
The legislation makes no exception to restriction on abortion apart from cases where mother 's life is endangered.
The bill was passed 33-12 in the senate, while last month it was approved 59-9 by House of Representatives.
The office of Governor Mary Fallin has said that she will not comment on the bill before the legislation is reviewed.
Fallin is known to have taken pro-life stance with passage of bills including banning abortions over 20 weeks, preventing coverage of abortions by health insurance policies, and increasing the waiting period before abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours.
Senator Nathan Dahm, one of the bill 's co-authors, has indicated that the bill seeks to restore human rights once accorded to unborn babies before the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling in US Supreme Court, which legalized abortions before 24 weeks.
"Since I believe life begins at conception, it should be protected, and I believe it 's a core function of state government to defend that life from the beginning of conception," said Dahm.
The bill is being opposed by pro-abortion groups, who say that it goes against constitution and are expected to sue the state government if it becomes a law.
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"Since Governor Fallin took office in 2011, she has signed 18 bills restricting access to reproductive health care services, including a Texas-style clinic shutdown law, a ban on the most common method of second trimester abortion, unconstitutional restrictions on medication abortion, and a law that forces abortion providers to perform an ultrasound and display and describe the image. Each of these laws have been blocked by courts; in fact, the Center for Reproductive Rights has challenged unconstitutional restrictions on reproductive health care in Oklahoma eight times in five years," CRR said in another press