2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-745.51. Definitions.

As used in this act:

1. "Abortion" means the act of using, prescribing, administering, procuring, or selling of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the purpose to terminate the pregnancy of a woman, with knowledge that the termination by any of those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of an unborn child. It does not include the use, prescription, administration, procuring, or selling of Plan B, morning-after pills, or any other type of contraception or emergency contraception. An act is not an abortion if the act is performed with the purpose to:

• a.save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child,
• b.remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion, or
• c.remove an ectopic pregnancy;

2. "Fertilization" means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum;

3. "Medical emergency" means a condition in which an abortion is necessary to preserve the life of a pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself;

4. "Unborn child" means a human fetus or embryo in any stage of gestation from fertilization until birth; and

5. "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. 321, § 1, emerg. eff. May 25, 2022.

NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 1-745.31 of this title to avoid duplication in numbering.