Oklahoma § 63-1-737.9 Unlawful dismemberment abortions - Exceptions.

Oklahoma Statutes

§ 63-1-737.9 — Unlawful dismemberment abortions - Exceptions.

Oklahoma § 63-1-737.9

Title 63Public Health And Safety

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Bluebook

Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-737.9 (2026).

Text

A.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful and deemed a Class D2 felony offense for any person to purposely perform or attempt to perform a dismemberment abortion and thereby kill an unborn child unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother.

B.A person accused in any proceeding of unlawful conduct under subsection A of this section may seek a hearing before the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision on whether the dismemberment abortion was necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother. The Board's findings are admissible on that issue at any trial in which such unlawful conduct is alleged. Upon a motion of the person accused, the court shall delay the beginning of the trial for not more than thirty

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A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be unlawful and deemed a Class D2 felony offense for any person to purposely perform or attempt to perform a dismemberment abortion and thereby kill an unborn child unless necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother. B. A person accused in any proceeding of unlawful conduct under subsection A of this section may seek a hearing before the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision on whether the dismemberment abortion was necessary to prevent serious health risk to the unborn child's mother. The Board's findings are admissible on that issue at any trial in which such unlawful conduct is alleged. Upon a motion of the person accused, the court shall delay the beginning of the trial for not more than thirty (30) days to permit such a hearing to take place. C. No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be thereby liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion. No nurse, technician, secretary, receptionist or other employee or agent who is not a physician but who acts at the direction of a physician and no pharmacist or other individual who is not a physician but who fills a prescription or provides instruments or materials used in an abortion at the direction of or to a physician shall be thereby liable for performing or attempting to perform a dismemberment abortion.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 2015, c. 59, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015. Amended by Laws 2025, c. 486, § 602, eff. Jan. 1, 2026. NOTE: The conditional repeal of this section by Laws 2021, c. 308, § 12, was itself repealed by Laws 2022, c. 133, § 2, emerg. eff. April 29, 2022.