Abortion Parental Consent Summary Report.
A.Beginning in 2013, by June 1 of each year, the Department shall issue, on its stable Internet website, a public Annual Abortion Report providing statistics for the previous calendar year compiled from all of the reports covering that year submitted in accordance with the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act.
B.The Department's public report shall also provide statistics for all previous calendar years for which abortion-reporting requirements have been in effect, adjusted to reflect any additional information from late or corrected reports.
C.The Annual Abortion Report shall include, but not be limited to, the following information: 1. The number of induced abortions performed in the previous calendar year, broken down by month and county in whi
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Abortion Parental Consent Summary Report. A. Beginning in 2013, by June 1 of each year, the Department shall issue, on its stable Internet website, a public Annual Abortion Report providing statistics for the previous calendar year compiled from all of the reports covering that year submitted in accordance with the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act. B. The Department's public report shall also provide statistics for all previous calendar years for which abortion-reporting requirements have been in effect, adjusted to reflect any additional information from late or corrected reports. C. The Annual Abortion Report shall include, but not be limited to, the following information: 1. The number of induced abortions performed in the previous calendar year, broken down by month and county in which the abortion was performed; 2. The number of abortions classified by: a. the state or foreign country of residence of the mother, b. the age, marital status, and race of the mother, and c. the number of years of education of the mother; 3. The number of abortions classified by: a. the number of previous pregnancies of the mother, b. previous live births to the mother, c. previous miscarriages, and d. previous induced abortions; 4. The number of abortions by week of gestational age; 5. The number of abortions performed by each reported method; 6. The number of abortions resulting in an infant born alive; of these, the number of cases in which life-sustaining measures were taken; and a statistical summary of the length of survival of such infants; 7. The number of cases in which anesthesia was administered to the mother and the number of each type of anesthesia; 8. The number of cases in which anesthesia was administered to the unborn child, and the number of each type of anesthesia and of each method of administration; 9. The number of each reported method of fetal disposal; 10. The reasons reported for the abortions, and the number of times each reported reason was cited; 11. The number of abortions paid for by: a. private insurance, b. public health plan, c. Medicaid, d. private pay, or e. other; 12. The number of abortions in which medical health insurance coverage was under: a. a fee-for-service insurance company, b. a managed care company, or c. other; 13. A statistical summary of the fees collected; 14. Specialty area of medicine of the physician; 15. The number of abortions in which ultrasound equipment was used before, during, or after the abortion, and the number of times vaginal ultrasound, abdominal ultrasound, or both were used in each of the three circumstances; 16. The number of abortions before which an ultrasound was performed by: a. the physician performing the abortion, b. a physician other than the physician performing the abortion, or c. other; 17. The number of abortions resulting in reported complications, and of those, how many were reported by the physician who performed the abortion, and how many were reported by another physician, the types of reported complications, and the number of each type based on data which shall be compiled and transmitted to the State Department of Health by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision and the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners; 18. The number of abortions resulting in the reported death of the mother; 19. The number of females to whom the physician provided the information in subparagraph a of paragraph 1 of subsection B of Section 1-738.2 of this title; of that number, the number provided by telephone and the number provided in person; and of each of those numbers, the number provided in the capacity of a referring physician and the number provided in the capacity of a physician who is to perform the abortion; 20. The number of females to whom physicians or agents of physicians provided the information in paragraph 2 of subsection B of Section 1-738.2 of this title; of that number, the number provided by telephone and the number provided in person; of each of those numbers, the number provided in the capacity of a referring physician and the number provided in the capacity of a physician who is to perform the abortion; and of each of those numbers, the number provided by the physician and the number provided by an agent of the physician; 21. The number of females who availed themselves of the opportunity to have a copy of the printed information described in Section 1-738.3 of this title mailed to them; and of that number, the number who, based on the submitted reports, did and did not obtain an abortion; 22. The number of abortions performed by the physician in which information otherwise required to be provided at least seventy-two (72) hours before the abortion was not so provided because an immediate abortion was necessary to avert the death of the female, and the number of abortions in which such information was not so provided because a delay would create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function; 23. The number of females to whom physicians or their agents provided the information described in subsection A of Section 1- 738.8 of this title; of that number: a. the number provided by telephone and the number provided in person; and of each of those numbers, the number provided in the capacity of a referring physician and the number provided in the capacity of a physician who is to perform the abortion, or by the agent of such physician, and b. the number of females who availed themselves of the opportunity to be given or mailed the materials described in Section 1-738.10 of this title, and the number who did not; and of each of those numbers, the number who, to the best of the information and belief of the reporting physician, went on to obtain the abortion; 24. The number of females to whom the information described in subsection A of Section 1-738.8 of this title would have had to be provided but for a medical emergency determination; of that number, the number for whom an immediate abortion was necessary to avert the death of the female, and the number for whom a delay would have created serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function; 25. The number of abortions performed within the scope of employment of Oklahoma state employees and employees of an agency or political subdivision of the state, the number of abortions performed with the use of public institutions, facilities, equipment, or other physical assets owned, leased, or controlled by this state, its agencies, or political subdivisions, and for each category: a. the number of abortions reported as necessary to save the life of the mother, the life-endangering conditions identified, and the number of each such condition reported, b. the number of abortions reported from pregnancies resulting from forcible rape, the number of such rapes reported to law enforcement authorities, general categories of law enforcement authorities to whom reports were made and the number made to each category, and a statistical summary of the length of time between the dates of reporting to law enforcement authorities and the dates of the abortions, and c. the number of abortions reported from pregnancies resulting from incest committed against a minor, the number of perpetrators of incest in such cases reported to law enforcement authorities, general categories of law enforcement authorities to whom reports were made and the number made to each category, and a statistical summary of the length of time between the dates of reporting to law enforcement authorities and the dates of the abortions; 26. The number of females to a parent of whom the physician provided notice as required by Section 1-740.2 of this title; of that number, the number provided personally as described in that section, and the number provided by mail as described in that section, and of each of those numbers, the number of females who, to the best of the information and belief of the reporting physician, went on to obtain the abortion; 27. The number of females upon whom the physician performed an abortion without the notice to or consent of the parent of the minor required by Section 1-740.2 of this title; of that number, the number who were emancipated minors and the number who suffered from a medical emergency, and of the latter, the number of cases in which a parent was notified subsequently and the number of cases in which a judicial waiver was obtained. In the case of medical emergencies in which a parent was informed subsequently, a statistical summary of the period of time elapsed before notification; 28. The number of abortions performed after receiving judicial authorization to do so without parental notice and consent; 29. The number of abortions performed on minors after judicial authorizations were granted because of a finding that the minor girl was mature and capable of giving informed consent; 30. The number of abortions performed on minors after judicial authorizations were granted because of a finding that the performance of the abortion without parental notification and consent was in the best interest of the minor; 31. The number of abortions performed after which the remains of the fetus after the abortion were examined to ensure that all such remains were evacuated from the mother's body; 32. The number of male children aborted and female children aborted, as determined from the examination of fetal remains after abortion; 33. The number of male children aborted and female children aborted, as determined by any method other than those reported in paragraph 32 of this subsection; 34. The number of instances in which the mother was informed prior to the abortion that the child to be aborted was a female; 35. The number of abortions performed without surgery but rather as the result of the administration of chemicals; 36. The number of abortions performed as reported in paragraph 35 of this subsection, in which the physician was present in the same room as the woman to whom the chemicals were administered at the time any such chemicals were first administered; 37. The number of abortions performed for each hospital at which the abortionist had hospital privileges at the time of the abortion; 38. The number of abortions performed at which ultrasound equipment was used before the abortion; 39. The number of abortions reported in paragraph 38 of this subsection, during which the mother was under the effect of anesthesia at the time of the ultrasound; 40. The number of abortions performed at which ultrasound equipment was used during the abortion; 41. The number of abortions reported in paragraph 40 of this subsection, during which the mother was under the effect of anesthesia at the time of the ultrasound; 42. The number of abortions performed at which ultrasound equipment was used after the abortion; 43. The number of abortions reported in paragraph 42 of this subsection, during which the mother was under the effect of anesthesia at the time of the ultrasound; 44. The mean gestational age of the fetus at the time of the abortion, as determined by ultrasounds reported; 45. The number of abortions for which no determination of probable postfertilization age was made as required by Section 1- 745.5 of this title; and 46. The number of abortions in which the pregnant woman was told that it may be possible to make the embryonic or fetal heartbeat of the unborn child audible for the pregnant woman to hear; the number of abortions in which the pregnant woman was asked if she would like to hear the heartbeat; and the number of abortions in which the embryonic or fetal heartbeat of the unborn child was made audible for the pregnant woman to hear, using a Doppler fetal heart rate monitor. D. Beginning in 2013, by June 1 of each year, the State Department of Health shall post, on its stable Internet website, a public Annual Judicial Bypass of Abortion Parental Consent Summary Report providing statistics which shall be compiled and supplied to the Department by the Administrative Office of the Courts giving the total number of petitions or motions filed under Section 1-740.3 of this title and of that number, the number in which: 1. The court appointed a guardian ad litem; 2. The court appointed counsel; 3. The judge issued an order authorizing an abortion without parental notification or consent, and of those: a. the number authorized due to a determination by the judge that the minor was mature and capable of giving consent to the proposed abortion, and b. the number authorized due to a determination by the judge that an abortion was in the best interest of the minor; and 4. The judge denied such an order, and of this, the number of: a. denials from which an appeal was filed, b. the appeals that resulted in the denial being affirmed, and c. appeals that resulted in reversals of the denials. E. Each Annual Judicial Bypass of Abortion Parental Consent Summary Report shall also provide the statistics for all previous calendar years for which the public statistical report was required to be issued, adjusted to reflect any additional information from late or corrected reports. F. The Department's public reports shall not contain the name, address, hometown, county of residence, or any other identifying information of any individual female, and shall take care to ensure that none of the information included in its public reports could reasonably lead to the identification of any individual female about whom information is reported in accordance with the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act or of any physician providing information in accordance with the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act. Nor shall the information described in the preceding sentence be subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act.