A bill that would outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma as an act of murder will not be brought up for a vote per the decision of Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chair, Sen. Jason Smalley, R-Stroud.
The “Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act,” SB 13, filed by Sen. Joseph Silk, R-Broken Bow, states the definition of a human being includes the unborn, and “from the moment of fertilization.”
Therefore, under existing homicide statutes, which define the crime as “the killing of one human being by another,” the unborn would be equally protected, specifically regarding “acts which cause the death of an unborn child committed during an abortion.”
