Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 48 > Chapter 45 - South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

• 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
• Consent: means a signed and witnessed voluntary agreement to the performance of an abortion. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine in this State. See South Carolina Code 44-41-10
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.