§ 20-16-2301. Title
This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Perinatal Palliative Care Information Act”.
§ 20-16-2302. Legislative findings and purpose
(a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) As diagnosis of prenatal conditions improves, more lethal fetal anomalies are diagnosed earlier in pregnancy; (2) (A) Currently, parents are often given minimal options. (B) Parents must choose between terminating the pregnancy or simply waiting for the child to die; (3) The majority of parents in the situation […]
§ 20-16-2303. Definitions
As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Abortion” means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman, with knowledge that the termination by any of those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death […]
§ 20-16-2304. Informed consent for abortion to include perinatal palliative care information
(a) Except in the case of a medical emergency, consent to an abortion when the unborn child has been diagnosed with a lethal fetal anomaly is voluntary and informed only if at least seventy-two (72) hours before the abortion: (1) The physician performing the abortion has verbally informed the pregnant woman that perinatal palliative care […]
§ 20-16-2305. Professional sanctions
(a) A violation of this subchapter shall constitute unprofessional conduct and shall result in the revocation of a physician’s license to practice medicine. (b) A violation of this subchapter may be used as the basis for: (1) Denying an application for licensure, certification, permit, registration, or other form of permission required to practice or engage […]
§ 20-16-2306. Right of intervention
The General Assembly by joint resolution may appoint one (1) or more of its members who sponsored or cosponsored this subchapter in his or her official capacity to intervene as a matter of right in any case in which the constitutionality of this subchapter is challenged.