(a) Abortion Defined. As used in this section "abortion" means 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 Ohio R.C. 4731.41. (ORC 2919.11)
(b) Abortion Without Informed Consent Prohibited.
(1) No person shall perform or induce an abortion without the informed consent of the pregnant woman.
(2) No person shall knowingly perform or induce an abortion upon a woman who is pregnant, unmarried, under eighteen years of age and unemancipated unless at least one of the conditions set forth in Ohio R.C. 2919.12 applies.
(3) The affirmative defenses contained in Ohio R.C. 2929.12 are affirmative defenses to a charge under this section.
(4) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawful abortion, a misdemeanor of the first degree for a first offense.
(ORC 2919.12)
(c) Abortion Trafficking.
(1) No person shall experiment upon or sell the product of human conception which is aborted. Experiment does not include autopsies pursuant to Ohio R.C. 313.13 and 2108.50.
(2) Whoever violates this section is guilty of abortion trafficking, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2919.14)