Montana Code 50-20-305. Emergency
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50-20-305. Emergency. When a medical emergency compels the performance of an abortion, the physician shall inform the woman, before the abortion if possible, of the medical indications supporting the physician’s judgment that an abortion is necessary to avert the woman’s death or that a 24-hour delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-20-305
- 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
- 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. See Montana Code 50-20-303
- Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine under Title 37, chapter 3. See Montana Code 50-20-303