2010 Tennessee Code
Title 39 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 15 - Offenses Against the Family
Part 2 - Abortion
39-15-207 - Custody of infant prematurely born alive during abortion.

39-15-207. Custody of infant prematurely born alive during abortion.

An infant prematurely born alive in the course of a voluntary abortion is declared abandoned for purposes of custody only, and the department of children's services shall care for the infant as provided in § 34-1-103.

[Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1996, ch. 1079, § 124.]  

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