{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-756.2","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-756.2","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this act:\n\n1. \"Abortion\" means the use or prescription of any instrument,\n\nmedicine, drug or any other substance or device intentionally to\n\nterminate the pregnancy of a female known to be pregnant with an\n\nintention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to\n\npreserve the life or health of the child after live birth, to remove\n\nan ectopic pregnancy or to remove a dead unborn child who died as\n\nthe result of a spontaneous miscarriage, accidental trauma or a\n\ncriminal assault on the pregnant female or her unborn child;\n\n2. \"Abortion-inducing drug\" means a medicine, drug or any other\n\nsubstance prescribed or dispensed with the intent of terminating the\n\npregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with knowledge that the\n\ntermination will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the\n\nunborn child. This includes the off-label use of drugs known to\n\nhave abortion-inducing properties, which are prescribed specifically\n\nwith the intent of causing an abortion, such as mifepristone\n\n(Mifeprex), misoprostol (Cytotec) and methotrexate. This definition\n\ndoes not apply to drugs that may be known to cause an abortion, but\n\nwhich are prescribed for other medical indications, such as\n\nchemotherapeutic agents and diagnostic drugs. The use of such drugs\n\nto induce abortion is also known as \"medical\", \"medication\", \"RU–\n\n486\", \"chemical\", \"Mifeprex regimen\" or \"drug-induced\" abortion;\n\n3. \"Adverse Event\", according to the Food and Drug\n\nAdministration, means any untoward medical occurrence associated\n\nwith the use of a drug in humans, whether or not considered drug-\n\nrelated. It does not include an adverse event or suspected adverse\n\nreaction that, had it occurred in a more severe form, might have\n\ncaused death;\n\n4. \"Associated physician\" means a person licensed to practice\n\nmedicine in the state including medical doctors and doctors of\n\nosteopathy, that has entered into an associated physician agreement;\n\n5. \"Complication\" means any adverse physical or psychological\n\ncondition arising from the performance of an abortion which\n\nincludes, but is not limited to, uterine perforation, cervical\n\nperforation, infection, heavy or uncontrolled bleeding, hemorrhage,\n\nblood clots resulting in pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis,\n\nfailure to actually terminate the pregnancy, incomplete abortion\n\n(retained tissue), pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, missed\n\nectopic pregnancy, cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, renal\n\nfailure, metabolic disorder, shock, embolism, coma, placenta previa\n\nin subsequent pregnancies, preterm delivery in subsequent\n\npregnancies, free fluid in the abdomen, hemolytic reaction due to\n\nthe administration of ABO-incompatible blood or blood products,\n\nadverse reactions to anesthesia and other drugs, subsequent\n\ndevelopment of breast cancer, psychological complications such as\n\ndepression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, sleeping disorders, death\n\nand any other adverse event as defined by the Food and Drug\n\nAdministration criteria provided in the Medwatch Reporting System;\n\n6. \"Gestational age\" means the time that has elapsed since the\n\nfirst day of the woman's last menstrual period, also known as \"last\n\nmenstrual period\" or \"LMP\";\n\n7. \"Hospital\" means an institution providing medical and\n\nsurgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people, or\n\ninstitutions defined under Section 1-701 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes;\n\n8. \"Physician\" means any person licensed to practice medicine\n\nin this state. The term includes medical doctors and doctors of\n\nosteopathy;\n\n9. \"Pregnant\" or \"pregnancy\" means that female reproductive\n\ncondition of having an unborn child in the mother's uterus;\n\n10. \"Provide\" or \"provision\" means, when used regarding\n\nabortion-inducing drugs, any act of giving, selling, dispensing,\n\nadministering, transferring possession to or otherwise providing or\n\nprescribing an abortion-inducing drug;\nes medical doctors and doctors of\n\nosteopathy;\n\n9. \"Pregnant\" or \"pregnancy\" means that female reproductive\n\ncondition of having an unborn child in the mother's uterus;\n\n10. \"Provide\" or \"provision\" means, when used regarding\n\nabortion-inducing drugs, any act of giving, selling, dispensing,\n\nadministering, transferring possession to or otherwise providing or\n\nprescribing an abortion-inducing drug;\n\n11. \"Qualified physician\" means a physician licensed in this\n\nstate who has the ability to:\n\na. identify and document a viable intrauterine pregnancy,\n\nb. assess the gestational age of pregnancy and to inform\n\nthe patient of gestational age-specific risks,\n\nc. diagnose ectopic pregnancy,\n\nd. determine blood type and administer RhoGAM if a woman\n\nis Rh negative,\n\ne. assess for signs of domestic abuse, reproductive\n\ncontrol, human trafficking and other signals of\n\ncoerced abortion,\n\nf. provide surgical intervention or has entered into a\n\ncontract with another qualified physician to provide\n\nsurgical intervention, and\n\ng. supervise and bear legal responsibility for any agent,\n\nemployee or contractor who is participating in any\n\npart of procedure including, but not limited to, pre-\n\nprocedure evaluation and care;\n\n12. \"Reasonable medical judgment\" means a medical judgment that\n\nwould be made by a reasonably prudent physician knowledgeable about\n\nthe case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical\n\nconditions involved; and\n\n13. \"Unborn child\" means an individual organism of the species\n\nhomo sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of being\n\nborn-alive as defined in Title 1 U.S.C., Section 8(b).","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":"6b9304e9cff043b5bf03ef8e572cfe23effa5a6ad59fcbf850bad02682cc69cb","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-756.14","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-1-756.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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