{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-568","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-568","heading":"Licensure, accreditation, certification not contingent","body":"upon acceptance of abortion as treatment option.\n\nA. Nothing in the Genetic Counseling Licensure Act may be\n\nconstrued to require any genetic counselor or other person to\n\nmention, discuss, suggest, propose, recommend, or refer for,\n\nabortion, or to agree or indicate a willingness to do so, nor shall\n\nlicensing of any genetic counselor be contingent upon acceptance of\n\nabortion as a treatment option for any genetic or other prenatal\n\ndisease, anomaly, or disability.\n\nB. If the State Board of Health determines that accreditation\n\nof genetic counseling training programs by the American Board of\n\nGenetic Counseling or of medical genetics training programs by the\n\nAmerican Board of Medical Genetics is dependent on criteria, or\n\napplied in a manner, incompatible with the provisions of subsection\n\nA of this section, it shall establish or recognize and apply\n\ncriteria for accreditation of alternative genetic counseling\n\ntraining programs or medical genetics training programs compatible\n\nwith the provisions of subsection A of this section and any genetic\n\ncounseling training programs or medical genetics training programs\n\naccredited thereunder shall be deemed accredited for the purposes of\n\nparagraph 3 of subsection A of Section 4 of this act.\n\nC. If the State Board of Health determines that the examination\n\nrequired for certification as a genetic counselor by the American\n\nBoard of Genetic Counseling or the American Board of Medical\n\nGenetics or as a medical geneticist by the American Board of Medical\n\nGenetics is incompatible with the provisions of subsection A of this\n\nsection, it shall establish or recognize an alternative examination\n\ncompatible with the provisions of that subsection and an individual\n\nwho passes such an examination shall be deemed to meet the relevant\n\nrequirements of paragraph 4 of subsection A of Section 4 of this\n\nact.\n\nD. The State Board of Health shall by rule waive such other\n\nprovisions of the Genetic Counseling Licensure Act and provide for\n\nappropriate substitute requirements as it determines necessary to\n\nensure compliance with subsection A of this section.\n\nE. There shall be no cause of action against any person for\n\nfailure to mention, discuss, suggest, propose, recommend, or refer\n\nfor, abortion, unless the abortion is necessary to prevent the death\n\nof the mother.\n\nF. This section shall not be severable from the Genetic\n\nCounseling Licensure Act.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"84cb95a728aa827256032ef6f86fe1697a0cbe06c6a0f44fdd952858b0b06b04","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-567","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-569"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}