Colorado Code § 13-22-703

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As used in this part 7, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Minor" means a person under eighteen years of age.
(2) "Parent" means the natural or adoptive mother and father of the minor who is
pregnant, if they are both living; one parent of the minor if only one is living, or if the other
parent cannot be served with notice, as hereinafter provided; or the court-appointed guardian of
such minor if she has one or any foster parent to whom the care and custody of such minor shall
have been assigned by any agency of the state or county making such placement.
(3) "Abortion" for purposes of this part 7 means the use of any means to terminate the
pregnancy of a minor with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable
likelihood, cause the death of the minor's unborn offspring.
(4) "Clergy member" means a priest; a rabbi; a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed
minister of a church; a member of a religious order; or a recognized leader of any religious body.
(5) "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 minor as to
necessitate a medical procedure necessary to prevent the pregnant minor's death or for which a
delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily
function.
(6) "Relative of the minor" means a minor's grandparent, adult aunt, or adult uncle, if the
minor is not residing with a parent and resides with the grandparent, adult aunt, or adult uncle.

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