2022 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 14 - Criminal Law
§14:87.2. Human experimentation on an infant born alive

Universal Citation: LA Rev Stat § 14:87.2 (2022)

RS 14:87.2 - Human experimentation on an infant born alive

A. Human experimentation is the use of any infant who is born alive, without consent of that live born human being, for any scientific or laboratory research or any other kind of experimentation or study except to protect or preserve the life and health of the live born human being, or the conduct, on a human embryo or fetus in utero, of any experimentation or study except to preserve the life or to improve the health of the human embryo or fetus.

B. Whoever commits the crime of human experimentation on an infant born alive shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than twenty years, or fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.

Added by Acts 1973, No. 77, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7; Acts 2022, No. 545, §2.

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