NOTE: This section is conditionally repealed upon certification by the Attorney General that either of the conditions set forth in Laws 2021, c. 308, § 18 have been met. (See end of section for those conditions.)
A. As used in the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act:
1. "Abortion" means the term as defined in Section 1-730 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
2. "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, bleeding, hemorrhage, blood clots, 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, preterm delivery in subsequent pregnancies, free fluid in abdomen, adverse reaction to anesthesia and other drugs, and mental and psychological complications such as depression, anxiety, sleeping disorders, psychiatric hospitalization, and emotional problems; and
3. "Stable Internet website" means a website that, to the extent reasonably practicable, is safeguarded from having its content altered other than by the State Department of Health.
B. By March 1, 2012, the State Department of Health shall make available, on its stable Internet website, an Individual Abortion Form as required by Section 3 of this act, and a form for a Complications of Induced Abortion Report as required by Section 4 of this act.
C. As required by Section 5 of this act, information from a completed Individual Abortion Form or a completed Complications of Induced Abortion Report shall be combined with information from all other such completed forms and reports submitted for the year. An Annual Abortion Report providing statistics for the previous calendar year compiled from all of that year's completed forms and reports submitted in accordance with the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act shall be published annually by the Department on its stable Internet website.
D. No Individual Abortion Forms or Complications of Induced Abortion Reports that have been completed and submitted to the Department by any physician pursuant to subsection B of Section 3 of this act or subsection C of Section 4 of this act shall be posted online.
E. By March 1, 2012, the State Department of Health shall, on its stable Internet website, provide the language of all Oklahoma Statutes and regulations directly relating to abortion, and shall promptly update its website to reflect subsequent statutory and regulatory changes. The Department shall also, by March 1, 2012, provide, on its stable Internet website, the means by which physicians may electronically submit the reports required by the Statistical Abortion Reporting Act. The Department shall include instructions on its stable Internet website regarding electronic submission. The Department shall take all necessary precautions to ensure the security of the electronically submitted reports so that the submitted data is able to be accessed only by specially authorized departmental personnel during and following the process of transmission.
Added by Laws 2010, c. 276, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.
NOTE: Section 18 of Laws 2021, c. 308 provides: