Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 50 > Chapter 20 > Part 8 - Infant Safety and Care Act

• 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
• Abortion clinic: means a health care provider that performs any abortion procedure or provides an abortion-inducing drug. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• Abortion-inducing drug: means a medicine, drug, or any other substance provided, prescribed, or dispensed with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with the knowledge that the termination will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the unborn child. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• attempted: means an act or an omission of a statutorily required act that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance of an abortion in violation of this chapter. See Montana Code 50-20-104
• Born alive: means the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a human infant, at any stage of development, who, after expulsion or extraction, breathes, has a beating heart, or has definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, induced abortion, or another method. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of public health and human services provided for in 2-15-2201. See Montana Code 50-20-104
• Facility: means a hospital, health care facility, physician's office, or other place in which an abortion is performed. See Montana Code 50-20-104
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health care provider: means an individual who may be asked to participate in any way in a health care service or procedure, including but not limited to a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, certified nursing assistant, medical assistant, hospital employee, medical facility employee, or abortion clinic employee. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Knowingly: has the meaning provided in 45-2-101. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• Medical facility: means a public or private hospital, clinic, center, medical school, medical training institute, health care facility, physician's office, infirmary, dispensary, ambulatory surgical treatment center, or other institution or location where medical care or treatment is provided to an individual. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Purposely: has the meaning provided in 45-2-101. See Montana Code 50-20-803
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201