Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-16-1302. Definitions

(1) “Contraceptive” means a device, drug, or chemical that prevents fertilization;

(2) “Fetus” means the human offspring developing during pregnancy from the moment of fertilization and includes the embryonic stage of development;

(3) “Heartbeat” means cardiac activity, the steady and repetitive rhythmic contraction of the fetal heart within the gestational sac;

(4) “Human individual” means an individual organism of the species Homo sapiens;

(5) “Major bodily function” includes without limitation functions of the immune system, normal cell growth, and digestive, bowel, bladder, neurological, brain, respiratory, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductive functions;

(6) “Medical emergency” means a condition in which an abortion is necessary:

(7) “Pregnancy” means the human female reproductive condition that begins with fertilization when the female is carrying the developing human offspring and is calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the human female; and

(8) “Viability” means a medical condition that begins with a detectible  1 fetal heartbeat.