Ohio Code § 2919.16

§ 2919.16.

As used in sections 2919.16 to 2919.18 of the Revised Code : (A) “ Fertilization ” means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum. (B) “ Gestational age ” or “ gestation ” means the age of an unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual

period of a pregnant woman. (C) “ Health care facility ” means a hospital, clinic, ambulatory surgical treatment center, other center, medical

school, office of a physician, infirmary, dispensary, medical training institution,

or other institution or location in or at which medical care, treatment, or diagnosis

is provided to a person. (D) “Hospital” has the same meanings as in sections 3701.01 , 3727.01 , and 5122.01 of the Revised Code . (E) “Live birth” has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 3705.01 of the Revised Code . (F) “ Medical emergency ” means a condition that in the physician's good faith medical judgment, based upon

the facts known to the physician at that time, so complicates the woman's pregnancy

as to necessitate the immediate performance or inducement of an abortion in order

to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to avoid a serious risk of the substantial

and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman that

delay in the performance or inducement of the abortion would create. (G) “Physician” has the same meaning as in section 2305.113 of the Revised Code . (H) “ Pregnant ” means the human female reproductive condition, that commences with fertilization,

of having a developing fetus. (I) “ Pregnancy ” means the condition of being pregnant. (J) “ Premature infant ” means a human whose live birth occurs prior to thirty-eight weeks of gestational

age. (K) “ Serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function ” means any medically diagnosed condition that so complicates the pregnancy of the

woman as to directly or indirectly cause the substantial and irreversible impairment

of a major bodily function.  A medically diagnosed condition that constitutes a “ serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function ” includes pre-eclampsia, inevitable abortion, and premature rupture of the membranes,

may include, but is not limited to, diabetes and multiple sclerosis, and does not

include a condition related to the woman's mental health. (L) “ Unborn child ” means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until

live birth. (M) “ Viable ” means the stage of development of a human fetus at which in the determination of

a physician, based on the particular facts of a woman's pregnancy that are known to

the physician and in light of medical technology and information reasonably available

to the physician, there is a realistic possibility of the maintaining and nourishing

of a life outside of the womb with or without temporary artificial life-sustaining

support.