Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-738.1A

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Definitions

Official statutory text

As used in this section and Sections 1-738.2 through 1-738.5 of

Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes:

1. "Abortion" means the term as defined in Section 1-730 of

Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

2. "Attempt to perform an abortion" means an act, or an

omission of a statutorily required act, that, under the

circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a

substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the

performance of an abortion in this state in violation of this act;

3. "Board" means the State Board of Medical Licensure and

Supervision;

4. "Certified technician" means a Registered Diagnostic Medical

Sonographer who is certified in obstetrics and gynecology by the

American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), or a

nurse midwife or Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner in obstetrics

with certification in obstetrical ultrasonography;

5. "Medical emergency" means the existence of any physical

condition, not including any emotional, psychological, or mental

condition, which a reasonably prudent physician, with knowledge of

the case and treatment possibilities with respect to the medical

conditions involved, would determine necessitates the immediate

abortion of the pregnancy of the female to avert her death or to

avert substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily

function arising from continued pregnancy;

6. "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine in

this state pursuant to Sections 495 and 633 of Title 59 of the

Oklahoma Statutes;

7. "Probable gestational age of the unborn child" means what,

in the judgment of the physician, will with reasonable probability

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be the gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion

is planned to be performed;

8. "Stable Internet website" means a website that, to the

extent reasonably practicable, is safeguarded from having its

content altered other than by the State Board of Medical Licensure

and Supervision;

9. "Unborn child" means the term as is defined in Section 1-730

of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

10. "Woman" means a female human being whether or not she has

reached the age of majority.

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