Terms Used In Missouri Laws 188.018

  • Gestational age: length of pregnancy as measured from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. See Missouri Laws 188.015
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

If any one or more provisions, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words of this chapter or the application thereof to any person, circumstance, or period of gestational age is found to be unenforceable, unconstitutional, or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the same is hereby declared to be severable and the balance of this chapter shall remain effective notwithstanding such unenforceability, unconstitutionality, or invalidity. The general assembly hereby declares that it would have passed each provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more provisions, sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words of this chapter, or the application of this chapter to any person, circumstance, or period of gestational age, would be declared unenforceable, unconstitutional, or invalid.

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