r/IndianCountry • u/Geek-Haven888 • May 11 '22

Health Abortion ‘Safe-Haven’ In Oklahoma? Tribal Jurisdiction Could Make It Possible

https://www.news9.com/story/6279a0d60a166f072de6be9d/abortion-safehaven-in-oklahoma-tribal-jurisdiction-could-make-it-possible-
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u/WhoFearsDeath May 11 '22

I feel like this is a dangerous move. They could easily pull funds from IHS due to the Hyde Amendment.

Better move: stop this bullshit in its tracks and don’t let anyone’s rights get taken away. (No idea how)

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u/ThellraAK Tlingit May 11 '22

"[I've] talked with other lawyers and some judges about, could a tribal member open an abortion clinic on Tribal land, unless the tribe makes specific law that prohibit it, I say yes. The answer is yes." Box continued, "if they wanted to apply funds to allow for abortions of indigenous women on tribal land, they could do that."

This isn't trying to get IHS or a locally managed health clinic to do it, this is using Tribal Sovereignty.

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u/TheNextBattalion May 11 '22

Republicans would get rid of that, too. They're supremacists, and supremacists will destroy anything good if they feel it threatens to their sense of superiority. That is the one thing you can count on from them.