Florida Statutes Title XXIX. Public Health § 390.011. Definitions

(1) “Abortion” means the termination of human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.

(2) “Abortion clinic” or “clinic” means any facility in which abortions are performed. The term does not include:

(3) “Agency” means the Agency for Health Care Administration.

(4) “Born alive” means the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of a human infant, at any stage of development, who, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or has a beating heart, or definite and voluntary movement of muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, induced abortion, or other method.

(5) “Department” means the Department of Health.

(6) “Fatal fetal abnormality” means a terminal condition that, in reasonable medical judgment, regardless of the provision of life-saving medical treatment, is incompatible with life outside the womb and will result in death upon birth or imminently thereafter.

(7) “Gestation” means the development of a human embryo or fetus as calculated from the first day of the pregnant woman's last menstrual period.

(8) “Hospital” means a facility as defined in s. 395.002(12) and licensed under chapter 395 and part II of chapter 408.

(9) “Medical abortion” means the administration or use of an abortion-inducing drug to induce an abortion.

(10) “Partial-birth abortion” means a termination of pregnancy in which the physician performing the termination of pregnancy partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery.

(11) “Physician” means a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 or a physician practicing medicine or osteopathic medicine in the employment of the United States.

(12) “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.

(13) “Standard medical measure” means the medical care that a physician would provide based on the particular facts of the pregnancy, the information available to the physician, and the technology reasonably available in a hospital, as defined in s. 395.002, with an obstetrical department, to preserve the life and health of the fetus, with or without temporary artificial life-sustaining support, if the fetus were born at the same stage of fetal development.

(14) “Trimester” means one of the following three distinct periods of time in the duration of a pregnancy:

(15) “Viable” or “viability” means the stage of fetal development when the life of a fetus is sustainable outside the womb through standard medical measures.