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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 41 - Public Health » Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents » Women's Health Protection and Preborn Pain Act » § 41-41-135. Performing or inducing or attempting to perform or induce abortion before physician determines probable gestational age prohibited

Except as otherwise provided by Section 41-41-141, a physician may not perform, or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion without, before the procedure:

Making a determination of the probable gestational age of the unborn child; or

Possessing and relying on a determination of the probable gestational age of the unborn child made by another physician. The physician making such a determination must do so in accordance with reasonable medical judgment.