{
 "citation": "14:87.5",
 "heading": "Intentional failure to sustain life and health of aborted viable infant",
 "doc_id": "78693",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78693",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "1977",
 "last_amended_year": "2022",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B",
   "text": "Any person who commits the crime of intentional failure to sustain the life and health of an aborted viable infant shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than twenty-one years.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "21Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:87.5\n\n\u00a787.5. Intentional failure to sustain life and health of aborted viable infant\n\nA. The intentional failure to sustain the life and health of an aborted viable infant\nshall be a crime. The intentional failure to sustain the life and health of an aborted viable\ninfant is the intentional failure, by any physician or person performing or inducing an\nabortion, to exercise that degree of professional care and diligence, and to perform such\nmeasures as constitute good medical practice, necessary to sustain the life and health of an\naborted viable infant, when the death of the infant results.\n\nB. Any person who commits the crime of intentional failure to sustain the life and\nhealth of an aborted viable infant shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than\ntwenty-one years.\n\nAdded by Acts 1977, No. 406, \u00a71; Acts 2022, No. 545, \u00a72."
}