2006 South Dakota Code - 22-17-11 — Definitions.

     22-17-11.   Definitions. Terms used in §§ 22-17-7 to 22-17-11, inclusive, mean:
             (1)      "Pregnant," the human female reproductive condition, of having a living unborn human being within her body throughout the entire embryonic and fetal ages of the unborn child from fertilization to full gestation and child birth;
             (2)      "Unborn human being," an individual living member of the species, homo sapiens, throughout the entire embryonic and fetal ages of the unborn child from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth;
             (3)      "Fertilization," that point in time when a male human sperm penetrates the zona pellucida of a female human ovum.

Source: SL 2006, ch 119, § 5.

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