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HB 2648 Abortion or miscarriage; intent to produce or cause.

Introduced by: S. Chris Jones | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty.  Provides that any person, including the pregnant female, who administers to or causes to be taken by a pregnant female any drug or other thing or uses means, with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage and thereby destroys such child or produces such abortion or miscarriage is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill excepts medically approved contraceptives as a means of producing abortion or miscarriage. Current law does not with specificity include the pregnant female as a possible perpetrator.


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