Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Prohibits the abortion of an unborn child with a probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks, except in the case of a medical emergency, rape or incest. Requires that an abortion of an unborn child with probable gestational age of 15 or more weeks be performed or induced in specified facilities and with specific safeguards in place. Allows specified persons to bring an action against a health care provider for violations. Requires a health care provider who performs or induces, or attempts to perform or induce, an abortion to file a report with the Oregon Health Authority. Requires the authority to publish annually statistics relating to abortion. Allows specified persons to bring a cause of action for actual and punitive damages and injunctive relief against a health care provider for violations. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
After the abortion, the health care provider required by this paragraph to be in attendance shall take all reasonable steps in keeping with good medical practice to preserve the life and health of a child born alive as a result of the abortion.
Any child born alive shall be treated as a person under the law, and the State
Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall issue a birth certificate certifying the child’s birth even if the child may subsequently die, in which event a registrar shall issue a death certificate.