[For the purpose of this article, the following words and terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed:]
Abortion means the termination of human pregnancy by any act, device, instrument, procedure, medicine, prescription, or substance administered to or prescribed for a pregnant woman by any person, including the pregnant woman, with an intention other than delivery of a viable birth or removal of a dead fetus.
Child means a person under the age of 18 years old.
Conception means the fecundation of the ovum by the spermatozoa.
Physician means a person licensed to practice medicine in the state.
Pregnancy means the condition of a woman carrying a fetus or embryo within her body as a result of conception.
Pregnant woman is any female who is pregnant.
Unborn child or unborn children means all unborn children or the offspring of human beings from the moment of conception until birth at every stage of biological development.
Viability means that stage of human development when the fetus is potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb with or without aid of artificial life support system. For the purposes of this article, a legal presumption is hereby created that viability occurs no sooner than the twentieth week of pregnancy.
(1976 Code, § 2-352) (Ord. 2031, § 2, passed 9-5-1989)