Bill > SB883

This bill establishes strict regulations on abortion-inducing drugs in Oklahoma, defining abortion as the intentional termination of a known pregnancy and abortion-inducing drugs as medications prescribed specifically to end a pregnancy. The legislation prohibits any person from knowingly giving, selling, dispensing, administering, prescribing, distributing, trafficking, or providing abortion-inducing drugs such as mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate. Violations of this law will result in felony criminal charges, and for healthcare providers, immediate revocation of their professional license. The bill includes a unique "inseverability" clause, meaning that if any part of the law is found invalid, the entire act will be considered invalid. Additionally, the bill repeals numerous existing sections of Oklahoma law related to abortion-inducing drugs and contains an emergency clause, allowing the law to take effect immediately upon passage. The legislation specifically excludes drugs prescribed for other medical purposes (like chemotherapy) from its definition of abortion-inducing drugs, focusing instead on medications used explicitly to terminate pregnancies.

Health and Social Services

http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb883&Session=2600