OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Brad Henry has signed 29 bills, including three anti-abortion measures and a bill to revamp the Commissioners of the Land Office after an embezzlement scandal.

Henry signed the bills Friday, but they weren’t filed with the Secretary of State's Office until Monday.

The bills include a ban on abortions based on the gender of the child and tighter restrictions on the use of the RU-486 abortion pill. Another bill, dubbed the “Freedom of Conscience Act,” prohibits employers from discriminating against health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions, medical procedures involving human embryos, fetal transplants or euthanasia.

Tony Lauinger, state chairman of the anti-abortion group Oklahomans for Life, described all three bills as “modest measures” and expressed confidence they would withstand any legal challenge.

The language in the bills came from measures previously approved by lawmakers but overturned in separate court cases on the grounds they violated a constitutional requirement that bills deal with only one subject.

Four other abortion bills are pending in the Senate. Some abortion-rights advocates have described them as among the strictest in the nation.

Those bills, including a requirement that a doctor perform an ultrasound and describe the fetus to the pregnant woman before doing an abortion, could face a tougher challenge.

Henry, a Democrat, vetoed a 2008 bill that contained the ultrasound language, saying it was “unconscionable” to require victims of rape and incest to undergo the procedure. Although Democrats had the numbers to sustain Henry's veto, they joined with Republicans in voting overwhelmingly to override him.

An attorney for the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which successfully challenged two previous abortion bills, said it will wait to see what happens with the four pending measures before deciding whether to act.

“We’re certainly disappointed that these measures were enacted, but indeed we don't think they pose the same level of threat to women's access to reproductive health care that the other measures do,” Stephanie Toti said of the bills Henry signed Friday.

Other pending bills require signs in abortion clinics, impose new reporting requirements on women seeking abortions and their doctors, and prohibit so-called “wrongful life” lawsuits that argue a child would have been better off aborted.

Henry also signed a bill to overhaul the state's Commissioners of the Land Office, which manages public school lands to benefit education.

The changes were made in response to the indictment of a former auditor at the agency, who is accused of embezzling more than $1.1 million.