2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-691. Homicide defined.
A. Homicide is the killing of one human being by another.
B. As used in this section, “human being” includes an unborn child, as defined in Section 1-730 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
C. Homicide shall not include:
1. Acts which cause the death of an unborn child if those acts were committed during a legal abortion to which the pregnant woman consented; or
2. Acts which are committed pursuant to the usual and customary standards of medical practice during diagnostic testing or therapeutic treatment.
D. Under no circumstances shall the mother of the unborn child be prosecuted for causing the death of the unborn child unless the mother has committed a crime that caused the death of the unborn child.
R.L. 1910 Sec. 2308. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 185, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.
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