Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 23 - Protection of Fetus or Embryo

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attempt to perform or induce an abortion: means to do or to omit doing anything that, under the circumstances as the physician believes them to be, is an act or omission that constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion in violation of this article. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Destructive human embryonic stem cell research: means any research that involves the disaggregation of any human embryo for the purpose of creating human pluripotent stem cells or human pluripotent stem cell lines. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• 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.
• Human being: means an individual member of the species homo sapiens, from and after the point of conception. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Human embryo: means a living organism of the species homo sapiens through the first fifty-six days of its development, excluding any time during which its development has been suspended. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Human-animal hybrid: means any of the following:

  (a) A human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or cells, or any component part of a nonhuman cell or cells, have been introduced. See Arizona Laws 36-2311

• In vitro: means outside the human body. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Major bodily function: includes functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, and digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine and reproductive functions. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• 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. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Physician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or 17. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• probable gestational age: means the age of an unborn human being as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman. See Arizona Laws 36-2321
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Purchase or sell: includes an exchange of cash, an in-kind payment or any other valuable financial or nonfinancial consideration. See Arizona Laws 36-2311
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215