Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-756.2

As used in this act:

1. "Abortion" means the use or prescription of any instrument,

medicine, drug or any other substance or device intentionally to

terminate the pregnancy of a female known to be pregnant with an

intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to

preserve the life or health of the child after live birth, to remove

an ectopic pregnancy or to remove a dead unborn child who died as

the result of a spontaneous miscarriage, accidental trauma or a

criminal assault on the pregnant female or her unborn child;

2. "Abortion-inducing drug" means a medicine, drug or any other

substance prescribed or dispensed with the intent of terminating the

pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with knowledge that the

termination will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the

unborn child. This includes the off-label use of drugs known to

have abortion-inducing properties, which are prescribed specifically

with the intent of causing an abortion, such as mifepristone

(Mifeprex), misoprostol (Cytotec) and methotrexate. This definition

does not apply to drugs that may be known to cause an abortion, but

which are prescribed for other medical indications, such as

chemotherapeutic agents and diagnostic drugs. The use of such drugs

to induce abortion is also known as "medical", "medication", "RU–

486", "chemical", "Mifeprex regimen" or "drug-induced" abortion;

3. "Adverse Event", according to the Food and Drug

Administration, means any untoward medical occurrence associated

with the use of a drug in humans, whether or not considered drug-

related. It does not include an adverse event or suspected adverse

reaction that, had it occurred in a more severe form, might have

caused death;

4. "Associated physician" means a person licensed to practice

medicine in the state including medical doctors and doctors of

osteopathy, that has entered into an associated physician agreement;

5. "Complication" means any adverse physical or psychological

condition arising from the performance of an abortion which

includes, but is not limited to, uterine perforation, cervical

perforation, infection, heavy or uncontrolled bleeding, hemorrhage,

blood clots resulting in pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis,

failure to actually terminate the pregnancy, incomplete abortion

(retained tissue), pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, missed

ectopic pregnancy, cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, renal

failure, metabolic disorder, shock, embolism, coma, placenta previa

in subsequent pregnancies, preterm delivery in subsequent

pregnancies, free fluid in the abdomen, hemolytic reaction due to

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the administration of ABO-incompatible blood or blood products,

adverse reactions to anesthesia and other drugs, subsequent

development of breast cancer, psychological complications such as

depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety, sleeping disorders, death

and any other adverse event as defined by the Food and Drug

Administration criteria provided in the Medwatch Reporting System;

6. "Gestational age" means the time that has elapsed since the

first day of the woman's last menstrual period, also known as "last

menstrual period" or "LMP";

7. "Hospital" means an institution providing medical and

surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people, or

institutions defined under Section 1-701 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma

Statutes;

8. "Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine

in this state. The term includes medical doctors and doctors of

osteopathy;

9. "Pregnant" or "pregnancy" means that female reproductive

condition of having an unborn child in the mother's uterus;

10. "Provide" or "provision" means, when used regarding

abortion-inducing drugs, any act of giving, selling, dispensing,

administering, transferring possession to or otherwise providing or

prescribing an abortion-inducing drug;
es medical doctors and doctors of

osteopathy;

9. "Pregnant" or "pregnancy" means that female reproductive

condition of having an unborn child in the mother's uterus;

10. "Provide" or "provision" means, when used regarding

abortion-inducing drugs, any act of giving, selling, dispensing,

administering, transferring possession to or otherwise providing or

prescribing an abortion-inducing drug;

11. "Qualified physician" means a physician licensed in this

state who has the ability to:

a. identify and document a viable intrauterine pregnancy,

b. assess the gestational age of pregnancy and to inform

the patient of gestational age-specific risks,

c. diagnose ectopic pregnancy,

d. determine blood type and administer RhoGAM if a woman

is Rh negative,

e. assess for signs of domestic abuse, reproductive

control, human trafficking and other signals of

coerced abortion,

f. provide surgical intervention or has entered into a

contract with another qualified physician to provide

surgical intervention, and

g. supervise and bear legal responsibility for any agent,

employee or contractor who is participating in any

part of procedure including, but not limited to, pre-

procedure evaluation and care;

12. "Reasonable medical judgment" means a medical judgment that

would be made by a reasonably prudent physician knowledgeable about

the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical

conditions involved; and

13. "Unborn child" means an individual organism of the species

homo sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of being

born-alive as defined in Title 1 U.S.C., Section 8(b).

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