71-6901 Terms, defined. - Nebraska Statutes

71-6901. Terms, defined.For purposes of sections 71-6901 to 71-6908:(1) Abortion shall mean an act, procedure, device, or prescription administered to a woman known by the person so administering to be pregnant and administered with the intent and result of producing the premature expulsion, removal, or termination of the human life within the womb of the pregnant woman, except that in cases in which the unborn child's viability is threatened by continuation of the pregnancy, early delivery after viability shall not be construed as an abortion;(2) Facsimile copy shall mean a copy generated by a system that encodes a document or photograph into electrical signals, transmits those signals over telecommunications lines, and then reconstructs the signals to create an exact duplicate of the original document at the receiving end;(3) Parent shall mean one parent or guardian of the pregnant woman selected by the pregnant woman. The attending physician shall certify in writing in the pregnant woman's medical record the parent or guardian selected by the woman;(4) Physician or attending physician shall mean the physician intending to perform the abortion; and(5) Pregnant woman shall mean an unemancipated woman under eighteen years of age who is pregnant or a pregnant woman for whom a guardian has been appointed pursuant to sections 30-2620 to 30-2629 because of a finding of incapacity, disability, or incompetency. SourceLaws 1991, LB 425, § 1.