As used in the Parental Notification for Abortion Act:
1. "Parent" means one parent of the pregnant minor, or the guardian or conservator if the pregnant female has one;
2. "Abortion" means the use of any means intentionally to terminate the pregnancy of a female known to be pregnant with knowledge that the termination with those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the fetus;
3. "Fetus" means any individual human organism from fertilization to birth;
4. "Medical emergency" means the existence of any physical condition, not including any emotional, psychological, or mental condition, which a reasonably prudent physician would determine necessitates the immediate abortion of the female's pregnancy to avert her death or to avert substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function arising from continued pregnancy;
5. "Reasonable medical judgment" means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved; and
6. "Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state.
Added by Laws 2013, c. 320, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
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