2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-745.32. Definitions.
As used in this act:
1. "Fetal heartbeat" means cardiac activity or the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac;
2. "Gestational age" means the amount of time that has elapsed from the first day of a woman's last menstrual period;
3. "Gestational sac" means the structure comprising the extraembryonic membranes that envelop the unborn child and that is typically visible by ultrasound after the fourth week of pregnancy;
4. "Physician" means an individual licensed to practice medicine in this state including a medical doctor and a doctor of osteopathic medicine;
5. "Pregnancy" means the human female reproductive condition that:
- a.begins with fertilization,
- b.occurs when the woman is carrying the developing human offspring, and
- c.is calculated from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period;
6. "Standard medical practice" means the degree of skill, care, and diligence that an obstetrician of ordinary judgment, learning, and skill would employ in like circumstances;
7. "Unborn child" means a human fetus or embryo in any stage of gestation from fertilization until birth; and
8. "Woman" and "women" include any person whose biological sex is female including any person with XX chromosomes and any person with a uterus, regardless of any gender identity that the person attempts to assert or claim.
Added by Laws 2022, c. 190, § 2, emerg. eff. May 3, 2022.
