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Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-738.3: Print and online information - Requirements

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  2. Title 63

A. Within one hundred twenty (120) days of the effective date

of this act, the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision

shall cause to be published, in English and in Spanish, and shall

update on an annual basis, the following printed materials in such a

way as to ensure that the information is easily comprehensible:

1. a. geographically indexed materials designed to inform

the woman of public and private agencies, including

adoption agencies and services that are available to

assist a woman through pregnancy, upon childbirth, and

while the child is dependent, including:

(1) a comprehensive list of the agencies available,

(2) a description of the services they offer,

including which agencies offer, at no cost to the

pregnant woman, ultrasound imaging that enables a

pregnant woman to view the unborn child or heart

tone monitoring that enables the pregnant woman

to listen to the heartbeat of the unborn child,

and

(3) a description of the manner, including telephone

numbers, in which they might be contacted, or

b. at the option of the Board a toll-free, twenty-four-

hour-a-day telephone number which may be called to

obtain, in a mechanical, automated, or auditory

format, a list and description of agencies in the

locality of the caller and of the services they offer;

and

2. a. materials designed to inform the woman of the probable

anatomical and physiological characteristics of the

unborn child at two-week gestational increments from

the time when a woman can be known to be pregnant to

full term, including:

(1) any relevant information on the possibility of

the survival of the unborn child, and

(2) pictures or drawings representing the development

of unborn children at two-week gestational

increments, provided that the pictures or

drawings shall describe the dimensions of the

unborn child and shall be realistic and

appropriate for the stage of pregnancy depicted,

b. the materials shall be objective, nonjudgmental, and

designed to convey only accurate scientific

information about the unborn child at the various

gestational ages, and

c. the material shall also contain objective information

describing:

(1) the methods of abortion procedures commonly

employed,

(2) the medical risks commonly associated with each

of those procedures,

(3) the possible detrimental psychological effects of

abortion and of carrying a child to term, and

(4) the medical risks commonly associated with

carrying a child to term, and

d. the material shall contain the statement "Abortion

shall terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique,

living human being."

B. 1. The materials referred to in subsection A of this

section shall be printed in a typeface large enough to be clearly

legible.

2. The materials required under this section shall be available

at no cost from the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision

and shall be distributed upon request in appropriate numbers to any

person, facility, or hospital.

C. 1. The Board shall provide on its stable Internet website

the information described under subsection A of this section.

2. The website provided for in this subsection shall be

maintained at a minimum resolution of 72 PPI.

D. Any facility performing abortions that has a website shall

publish an easily identifiable link on the homepage of such website

that directly links to the Board's website, www.awomansright.org,

that provides informed consent materials under the Woman's Right-to-

Know Act. Such link shall read: "The State Board of Medical

Licensure and Supervision maintains a website containing information

about the development of the unborn child, as well as video of

ultrasound images of the unborn child at various stages of

development. The Board's website can be reached by clicking here:

www.awomansright.org."

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