Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 48 > Chapter 41 - Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas

• Abortion: means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn child. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Clinic: shall mean any facility other than a hospital as defined in subsection (d) which has been licensed by the department, and which has also been certified by the department to be suitable for the performance of abortions. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Hospital: means those institutions licensed for hospital operation by the department in accordance with Article 3, Chapter 7 of this title and which have also been certified by the department to be suitable facilities for the performance of abortions. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Pregnant: means the human biological female reproductive condition of having a living unborn child within her body, whether or not she has reached the age of majority. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10