OKGOP convention censures 4 GOP senators who killed bill to abolish abortion

Oklahoma Republican Party activists gathered this past weekend to elect new leadership and advance new party business at the biennial state convention. Among the items passed by convention delegates was a censure of four Republican state senators for voting in the Senate judiciary committee to against a bill to end abortion in Oklahoma.

Yes, after decades of pro-life pledges and bills, it's Republicans (allegedly 'conservative' and '100% pro-life', to boot) that are standing in the way of abolishing abortion in our state and ending the continued post-Dobbs slaughter of preborn human beings.

You can read a little more background information in this article from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion.

Video of the vote: pic.twitter.com/mRDll3JrW9

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Here's the text of the censure resolution:

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

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.