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The court agreed that the statute violates the <cite>United States Constitution<\/cite> by refusing to honor adoption decrees obtained in other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Health Department announced that it will not appeal a ruling earlier this month that struck down a state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[333,582,507],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fairness in Oklahoma. 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