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2016 Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 707 - HOMICIDE AND RELATED CRIMES
Section 707.10 - Duty to preserve the life of the fetus.
IA Code § 707.10 (2016) What's This?
707.10
Duty to preserve the life of the fetus.
A person who performs or induces a termination of a human pregnancy and who willfully fails to exercise that degree of professional skill, care, and diligence available to preserve the life and health of a viable fetus shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
[C79, 81, §707.10]
Definition of “viability”, §702.20
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