{
 "citation": "14:87.6",
 "heading": "Coerced abortion",
 "doc_id": "1106715",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=1106715",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "2018",
 "last_amended_year": "2025",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B",
   "text": "Whoever commits the crime of coerced abortion shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, or both.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "5Y",
   "hard_labor": "W/WO",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [
  "14:33",
  "14:36",
  "14:45",
  "14:46",
  "14:66"
 ],
 "text": "RS 14:87.6\n\n\u00a787.6. Coerced abortion\n\nA. Coerced abortion is committed when any person knowingly engages in the use\nor threatened use of physical force, control, or intimidation with the intent to compel a\npregnant woman to undergo an abortion against her will, whether or not the abortion\nprocedure has been attempted or completed. For purposes of this Section, physical force,\ncontrol, or intimidation shall mean any of the following:\n\n(1) Battery as defined in R.S. 14:33.\n\n(2) Assault as defined in R.S. 14:36.\n\n(3) Simple kidnapping as defined in R.S. 14:45.\n\n(4) False imprisonment as defined in R.S. 14:46.\n\n(5) Extortion as defined in R.S. 14:66.\n\nB. Whoever commits the crime of coerced abortion shall be fined not more than five\nthousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not more than five years, or both.\n\nActs 2018, No. 674, \u00a71, eff. June 1, 2018; Acts 2025, No. 275, \u00a71."
}