The GOP-led House voted overwhelmingly to send the bill to Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who had pledged to sign it. It was passed by the state senate last year.

The measure would make an exception only if an abortion was performed to save the mother, lawmakers said.

Doctors who perform abortions under other circumstances would face a $100,000 fine in addition to a long prison sentence. Patients would not be prosecuted.

"The penalties are for the doctor, not for the woman," GOP state Rep. Jim Olsen.

The proposal was the latest aggressive anti-abortion bill introduced by Republican-led statehouses since Texas banned abortions last fall, as the US Supreme Court considers overturning a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, which was established in 1973.

Similar bills passed by Oklahoma City legislators in recent years were shot down by the nation’s high