2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-745.34. Abortion not to be performed if heartbeat detected.
A. Except as provided by Sections 5 and 6 of this act, a physician shall not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman if the physician detected a fetal heartbeat for the unborn child as required by Section 3 of this act or failed to perform a test to detect a fetal heartbeat.
B. A physician shall not be in violation of this section if the physician performed a test for a fetal heartbeat as required by Section 3 of this act and did not detect a fetal heartbeat.
C. This section shall not affect any provision of state law that regulates or prohibits abortion including but not limited to any provision that restricts or regulates an abortion by a particular method or during a particular stage of pregnancy.
Added by Laws 2022, c. 190, § 4, emerg. eff. May 3, 2022.
