§ 35-6-201 — Definitions

Wyoming § 35-6-201

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 35: Public Health and Safety
• Ch. 6: ABORTIONS
• Art. 2: REGULATION OF SURGICAL ABORTIONS

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(a) As used in this article:
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(i) "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing
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any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance, device or
means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable
pregnancy of a woman, including the elimination of one (1) or
more unborn babies in a multifetal pregnancy, with knowledge
that the termination by those means will, with reasonable
likelihood, cause the death of the unborn baby. "Abortion" shall
not include any use, prescription or means specified in this
paragraph if the use, prescription or means are done with the
intent to:
(A) Save the life or preserve the health of the
unborn baby;
(B) Remove a dead unborn baby caused by
spontaneous abortion or intrauterine fetal demise;
(C) Treat a woman for an ectopic pregnancy; or
(D) Treat a woman for cancer or another disease
that requires medical treatment which treatment may be fatal or
harmful to the unborn baby.
(ii) "Ectopic pregnancy" means the state of carrying
an unborn child outside of the uterine cavity;
(iii) "Hospital" means those institutions licensed by
the Wyoming department of health as hospitals;
(iv) "Intrauterine fetal demise" means the death of
an unborn child inside the uterine cavity after twenty (20)
weeks of pregnancy;
(v) "Miscarriage" means the spontaneous loss of the
unborn child;
(vi) "Physician" means any person licensed to
practice medicine in this state;
(vii) "Pregnancy" or "pregnant" means the human
female reproductive condition of having a living unborn baby or
human being within a human female's body throughout the entire
embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn human being from
fertilization to full gestation and childbirth;
(viii) "Reasonable medical judgment" means a medical
judgment that would be made or a medical action that would be
undertaken by a reasonably prudent, qualified physician who is
knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities
with respect to the medical conditions involved;
(ix) "Surgical abortion" means an induced abortion
performed or attempted through use of a machine, medical device,
surgical instrument or surgical tool, or any combination
thereof, to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a
woman with knowledge and the intent that the termination by
those means will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of
the unborn child;
(x) "Surgical abortion facility" means any facility
that provides a surgical abortion to a woman.