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; and6. 'Physician' means any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this d the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved; and6. '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 Nov. 1, 2013.NOTE: The conditional repeal of this section by Laws 2021, c. 308, § 8, was itself repealed by Laws 2022, c. 133, § 2, emerg. eff. April 29, 2022.
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