2015 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health And Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health And Safety
Chapter 16 - Reproductive Health
Subchapter 8-1 - Abortion -- Parental Notification [Repealed effective January 1, 2016]
§ 20-16-802 - Definitions. [Repealed effective January 1, 2016.]

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Abortion" means the intentional termination of the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth or to remove a dead or dying fetus;

(2) "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;

(3) "Minor" means an individual under eighteen (18) years of age;

(4) "Parent" means:

(A) Either parent of the pregnant woman if they are both living;

(B) One (1) parent of the pregnant woman if only one (1) is living or if the second one cannot be located through reasonably diligent effort; or

(C) The court-appointed guardian or custodian if the pregnant woman has one; and

(5) "Unemancipated minor" means a minor who is under the care, custody, and control of her parent or parents.

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