{
 "citation": "14:32.5",
 "heading": "Feticide defined; exceptions",
 "doc_id": "78412",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78412",
 "classification": "",
 "enacted_year": "1989",
 "last_amended_year": "1989",
 "penalties": [],
 "referenced_statutes": [
  "40:1061.23"
 ],
 "text": "RS 14:32.5\n\nSUBPART A-1. FETICIDE\n\n\u00a732.5. Feticide defined; exceptions\n\nA. Feticide is the killing of an unborn child by the act, procurement, or\nculpable omission of a person other than the mother of the unborn child. The\noffense of feticide shall not include acts which cause the death of an unborn\nchild if those acts were committed during any abortion to which the pregnant\nwoman or her legal guardian has consented or which was performed in an\nemergency as defined in R.S. 40:1061.23. Nor shall the offense of feticide\ninclude acts which are committed pursuant to usual and customary standards\nof medical practice during diagnostic testing or therapeutic treatment.\n\nB. Criminal feticide is of three grades:\n\n(1) First degree feticide.\n\n(2) Second degree feticide.\n\n(3) Third degree feticide.\n\nActs 1989, No. 777, \u00a71."
}