Oklahoma’s Supreme Court voted 5-3 Monday to temporarily block three laws that would place restrictions on abortion.

The laws were scheduled to take effect Nov. 1.

One law would have required all doctors who perform abortions in Oklahoma to be board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, which would have forced about half the abortion providers in Oklahoma to stop providing abortions. The other two would create new restrictions on medication-induced abortions.

Three appointees of Gov. Kevin Stitt – M. John Kane IV, Dustin Rowe and Dana Kuehn – voted against the temporary injunction.

Other members of the court include Doug Combs, James E. Edmondson, James R. Winchester, Yvonne Kauger, Noma Gurich, and John V. Kane IV.

One judge did not vote.

“The Oklahoma Supreme Court recognized that these laws would cause irreparable harm to Oklahomans,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which helped challenge the laws, said in a statement. “All of these laws have the same goal: to make it harder to get an abortion in Oklahoma. We will continue to fight in court to ensure these laws are struck down for good. Politicians should not be meddling in the private health decisions of Oklahomans.”

According to a report by Fox News, about half of all abortion providers in Oklahoma would be forced to cease providing abortions if doctors were required to be board certified in obstetrics and gynecology. Additionally, Oklahoma abortion providers claim they’ve seen a surge in women crossing state lines seeking abortion after Texas enacted S.B. 8, which prohibits abortions after fetal heartbeat detection.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is scheduled to hear oral arguments for two cases surrounding Texas’ “heartbeat” abortion law, S.B. 8, on Nov. 1 and hear oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Dec. 1.

Dobbs, which began in 2018, surrounds the con stitutionality of a 15-week abortion ban in Mississippi. Texas’ S.B. 8 was upheld by SCOTUS after abortion advocacy groups submitted an emergency request asking the Court to block it.

President Biden then positioned the Department of Justice (DOJ) to sue Texas over the law. SCOTUS has agreed to hear arguments over the law, but did not block its enforcement.