Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-16-1402. Definitions

(1) “Abortion” means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device:

(2) “Attempt to perform or induce an abortion” means an act or an omission of a statutorily required act, that under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion in this state in violation of this subchapter;

(3) “Fertilization” means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum;

(5) “Physician” means any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state;

(6) “Post-fertilization age” means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the fertilization of the human ovum;

(7) “Probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child” means what, in reasonable medical judgment, will, with reasonable probability, be the post-fertilization age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned to be performed or induced;

(8) “Reasonable medical judgment” means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved;

(9) “Unborn child” means an individual organism of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth; and

(10) “Woman” means a female human being whether or not she has reached the age of majority.