(a) As used in this article: (i) "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance, device or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman, including the elimination of one (1) or more unborn babies in a multifetal pregnancy, with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn baby. "Abortion" shall not include any use, prescription or means specified in this paragraph if the use, prescription or means are done with the intent to: (A) Save the life or preserve the health of the unborn baby; (B) Remove a dead unborn baby caused by spontaneous abortion or intrauterine fetal demise; (C) Treat a woman for an ectopic pregnancy; or (D) Treat a woman for cancer or another disease that requires medical treatment which treatment may be fatal or harmful to the unborn baby. (ii) "Ectopic pregnancy" means the state of carrying an unborn child outside of the uterine cavity; (iii) "Hospital" means those institutions licensed by the Wyoming department of health as hospitals; (iv) "Intrauterine fetal demise" means the death of an unborn child inside the uterine cavity after twenty (20) weeks of pregnancy; (v) "Miscarriage" means the spontaneous loss of the unborn child; (vi) "Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine in this state; (vii) "Pregnancy" or "pregnant" means the human female reproductive condition of having a living unborn baby or human being within a human female's body throughout the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn human being from fertilization to full gestation and childbirth; (viii) "Reasonable medical judgment" means a medical judgment that would be made or a medical action that would be undertaken by a reasonably prudent, qualified physician who is knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved; (ix) "Surgical abortion" means an induced abortion performed or attempted through use of a machine, medical device, surgical instrument or surgical tool, or any combination thereof, to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge and the intent that the termination by those means will cause, with reasonable likelihood, the death of the unborn child; (x) "Surgical abortion facility" means any facility that provides a surgical abortion to a woman.
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