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2021 Indiana Code
Title 16. Health
Article 34. Abortion
Chapter 2. Requirements for Performance of Abortion; Criminal Penalties
16-34-2-0.5. Medical Emergency
Universal Citation: IN Code § 16-34-2-0.5 (2021)
Sec. 0.5. A medical emergency, for purposes of this chapter, does not include a patient's claim or diagnosis that the patient would engage in conduct that would result in the patient's death or substantial physical impairment. Under the circumstances described in this section and unless the following would pose a great risk of death or substantial physical impairment of the patient, the physician shall terminate the patient's pregnancy in a manner that, in a physician's reasonable medical judgment, would result in the best opportunity for the fetus to survive.
As added by P.L.193-2011, SEC.7.
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