(A) For the purpose of this section the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABORTION. The purposeful termination of a human pregnancy by any person, including the pregnant woman herself, with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus or embryo. ABORTION is the practice of medicine or surgery for the purposes of R.C. § 4731.41.
UNEMANCIPATED. A woman who is unmarried and under 18 years of age who has not entered the armed services of the United States, has not become employed and self-subsisting, or has not otherwise become independent from the care and control of her parent, guardian, or custodian.
(B) No person shall perform or induce an abortion without the informed consent of the pregnant woman.
(C) No person shall knowingly perform or induce an abortion upon a woman who is pregnant, unmarried, under 18 years of age, and unemancipated unless at least one of the circumstances enumerated in R.C. § 2919.12(B) applies.
(D) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful abortion. A violation of division (A) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense and a felony on each subsequent offense to be prosecuted under appropriate state law. A violation of division (B) is a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense and a felony on each subsequent offense to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(R.C. §§ 2919.11, 2919.12) ('81 Code § 135.11) Penalty, see § 130.99