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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 884 By: Bullard
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to abortion; creating the Oklahoma
Right to Life Act; providing short title; defining
terms; prohibiting certain acts related to abortion;
imposing certain duty on health care providers;
granting certain criminal and civil immunities;
providing certain criminal penalty; providing certain
construction; providing for codification; and
declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-731.5 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the
“Oklahoma Right to Life Act”.
B. As used in this section:
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 unborn person after live birth,
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or to remove a dead unborn person who died as the result of a
spontaneous miscarriage, accidental trauma, or a criminal assault on
the pregnant female or her unborn person; and
2. “Unborn person” means the unborn offspring of human beings
from the moment of conception, through pregnancy, and until live
birth including the human conceptus, zygote, morula, blastocyst,
embryo, and fetus.
C. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person
shall not purposely or recklessly perform, attempt to perform, or
aid or abet in any way the performance of an abortion.
2. When a medical condition arises that, in the reasonable
medical judgment of the attending health care provider, threatens
the life of a pregnant woman and necessitates delivery of the unborn
person, the health care provider shall deliver the unborn person and
shall make every reasonable effort, given the provider’s licensure,
capabilities, and training, to perform a live birth of the unborn
person, to preserve the life of the unborn person after birth, and
to preserve the life of the pregnant woman.
3. If the health care provider makes every such reasonable
effort, he or she shall not be:
a. subject to prosecution for the death of the unborn
person or pregnant woman including, but not limited
to, prosecution under subsection D of this section,
and
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b. liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts
or omissions by such health care provider except for
committing gross negligence or willful wanton wrongs
in the rendering of medical care.
D. 1. Any person found in violation of subsection C of this
section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of murder in the first
degree punishable as provided in Section 701.9 of Title 21 of the
Oklahoma Statutes.
2. This section does not prohibit the sale, use, prescription,
or administration of a contraceptive measure, drug, or chemical if
the contraceptive measure, drug, or chemical is administered before
the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional
medical testing and if the contraceptive measure, drug, or chemical
is sold, used, prescribed, or administered in accordance with
manufacturer instructions.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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