Montana Code 50-20-303. Definitions
50-20-303. Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-20-303
- Abortion: means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or other substance or device to intentionally terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after live birth, or to remove a dead fetus. See Montana Code 50-20-104
- Female: means a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XX chromosomes and produces or would produce relatively large, relatively immobile gametes, or eggs, during her life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine under Title 37, chapter 3. See Montana Code 50-20-303
- pregnancy: means that female reproductive condition of having an unborn child in the woman's body. See Montana Code 50-20-303
- Unborn child: means the offspring of human beings from conception until birth. See Montana Code 50-20-303
(1)”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 the woman’s pregnancy to avert the woman’s death or for which a delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
(2)”Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine under Title 37, chapter 3.
(3)”Pregnant” or “pregnancy” means that female reproductive condition of having an unborn child in the woman’s body.
(4)”Unborn child” means the offspring of human beings from conception until birth.