Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 23 > Article 3 - Gestational Limit on Abortion

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Attempt to perform or induce an abortion: means to do or to omit doing anything that, under the circumstances as the physician believes them to be, is an act or omission that constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion in violation of this article. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Human being: means an individual member of the species homo sapiens, from and after the point of conception. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Major bodily function: includes functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, and digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine and reproductive functions. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Medical emergency: means a condition that, on the basis of the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Physician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• probable gestational age: means the age of an unborn human being as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman. See Arizona Laws 36-2321