A. If any one or more provisions, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or words of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is found to be unconstitutional, the same is hereby declared to be severable and the balance of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act shall remain effective notwithstanding such unconstitutionality. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and each provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more provisions, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, or the application of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, would be declared unconstitutional.

B. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act shall not be construed to repeal, by implication or otherwise, Section 1-732 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or any otherwise applicable provision of Oklahoma’s laws regulating or restricting abortion. An abortion that complies with this act but violates the provisions of Section 1-732 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or any otherwise applicable provision of Oklahoma’s laws shall be deemed unlawful as provided in such provision. An abortion that complies with the provisions of Section 1-732 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or any otherwise applicable provision of Oklahoma’s laws regulating or restricting abortion but violates this act shall be deemed unlawful as provided in this act.

Added by Laws 2011, c. 89, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.