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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-16-1102

Definitions

Acts 2005, No. 1696, § 1.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) “Abortion” means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or other substance or device intentionally to terminate the pregnancy of a female known to be pregnant.

(2) However, “abortion” does not include the termination of a pregnancy if the termination is intended to: Increase the probability of a live birth;

(3) Preserve the life or health of the child after live birth; or

(4) Remove a dead fetus who died as the result of a spontaneous miscarriage;

(5) “Attempt to perform an abortion” means an act or an omission of a statutorily required act that under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the termination of a pregnancy in this state;

(6) “Gestational age” means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman;

(7) “Medical emergency” means any condition that on the basis of the physician's good-faith clinical judgment so complicates the medical condition of a pregnant female that: The immediate abortion of her pregnancy is necessary to prevent her death; or

(8) A delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant female;

(9) “Physician” means a person authorized or licensed to practice medicine under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, § 17-95-201 et seq., § 17-95-301 et seq., and § 17-95-401 et seq., and a person authorized to practice osteopathy under § 17-91-101 et seq.;

(10) “Probable gestational age” means the age that with reasonable probability in the judgment of a physician will be the gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned to be performed; and

(11) “Unborn child” means a member of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until birth.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.