{
  "code": "US-OK",
  "name": "Oklahoma",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-07",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "black_letter": "Oklahoma has three relevant Title 10 schemes: (1) Chapter 24 Artificial Insemination (10 O.S. \u00a7\u00a7 551\u2013553) \u2014 heterologous AI by a licensed physician with husband/wife written consent, with the child treated as the legitimate child of those spouses; (2) OUPA Chapter 77 (10 O.S. \u00a7 7700-101 et seq.) \u2014 general parentage without a modern assisted-reproduction/donor article; (3) OGAA (10 O.S. \u00a7 557 et seq.) \u2014 court-validated gestational agreements where a donor under the Act is not a parent (\u00a7 557.11). Informal peer-to-peer AI sits outside the Chapter 24 path and has no free-standing donor non-parentage safe harbor. Map status for informal AI is Not Recognized (clinic/physician-oriented scheme), consistent with other physician-gate U.S. regimes. Biology-based defaults and agency enforcement remain real risks.",
  "ai_informal": "clinic_or_physician_required",
  "ni": "not_recognized",
  "physician_or_clinic_for_safe_harbor": "yes",
  "agreement_effect": "evidence_only",
  "key_citations": [
    {
      "label": "10 O.S. \u00a7 551 \u2014 Artificial Insemination authorization",
      "url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=63991",
      "quote": "The technique of heterologous artificial insemination may be performed in this State by persons duly authorized to practice medicine at the request and with the consent in writing of the husband and wife desiring the utilization of such technique for the purpose of conceiving a child or children."
    },
    {
      "label": "10 O.S. \u00a7 552 \u2014 Status of child after heterologous AI",
      "url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=478065",
      "quote": "Any child or children born as the result thereof shall be considered at law in all respects the same as a naturally conceived legitimate child of the husband and wife so requesting and consenting to the use of such technique."
    },
    {
      "label": "10 O.S. \u00a7 553 \u2014 Persons authorized; consent",
      "url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=63993",
      "quote": "No person shall perform the technique of heterologous artificial insemination unless currently licensed to practice medicine in this State, and then only at the request and with the written consent of the husband and wife desiring the utilization of such technique."
    },
    {
      "label": "10 O.S. \u00a7 557.11(B) \u2014 OGAA donor non-parentage",
      "url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=483901",
      "quote": "A person acting in the capacity of a donor shall not be a parent of a child conceived as a result of assisted reproduction under a gestational carrier arrangement and shall have no rights or obligations with respect to such child."
    },
    {
      "label": "10 O.S. \u00a7 7700-201 \u2014 OUPA parent-child relationship",
      "url": "https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=446615",
      "quote": "The mother-child relationship is established between a woman and a child by: 1. The woman's having given birth to the child; 2. Adoption of the child by the woman; or 3. As otherwise provided by law."
    }
  ],
  "emerging_law_note": "Chapter 24 is a limited marital/physician heterologous-AI path, not a general informal-donor exemption. OGAA donor rules apply only to validated gestational agreements. Classification reflects informal AI (this site\u2019s subject), not the existence of a clinic pathway. Always re-read current OSCN text.",
  "page": "/Pages/US/OK/ok.html",
  "region_group": "US",
  "status_badges": {
    "AI-Single": "Banned",
    "AI-Married": "Banned",
    "NI": "Banned",
    "Contract": "Unknown"
  }
}