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IC 16-18-2-223.5: "Medical emergency"

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  1. TITLE 16. HEALTH
  2. ARTICLE 18. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
  3. Chapter 2. Definitions

Sec. 223.5. "Medical emergency", for purposes of IC 16-34, means a condition that, on the basis of the attending physician's good faith clinical judgment, complicates the medical condition of a pregnant woman so that it necessitates the immediate termination of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay would create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.

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