§ 1-737.8. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and Safety
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 1-737.8
§ 1-737.8. Definitions
For the purposes of the Oklahoma Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act:
2. “Attempt to perform an abortion” means to do or omit to do anything that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, is an act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the actor performing an abortion. Such substantial steps include, but are not limited to:
This definition shall not be construed to require that an abortion procedure actually must be initiated for an attempt to occur;
3. “Dismemberment abortion” means, with the purpose of causing the death of an unborn child, purposely to dismember a living unborn child and extract him or her one piece at a time from the uterus through use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush, and/or grasp a portion of the unborn child's body to cut or rip it off. This definition does not include an abortion which uses suction to dismember the body of the developing unborn child by sucking fetal parts into a collection container;
6. “Serious health risk to the unborn child's mother” means that in reasonable medical judgment she has a condition that so complicates her medical condition that it necessitates the abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions. No such condition may be determined to exist if it is based on a claim or diagnosis that the woman will engage in conduct which she intends to result in her death or in substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function; and
Credits
Laws 2015, c. 59, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 1-737.8, OK ST T. 63 § 1-737.8
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 182 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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