{
 "citation": "14:87.6.1",
 "heading": "Coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud",
 "doc_id": "1388525",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=1388525",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "2024",
 "last_amended_year": "2024",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B(1)",
   "text": "B.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, whoever commits the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than ten years, fined not less than ten thousand nor more than seventy-five thousand dollars, or both.",
   "los_min": "5Y",
   "los_max": "10Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  },
  {
   "subsection": "B(2)",
   "text": "(2) Whoever commits the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud when the unborn child is more than three months of gestational age shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten nor more than twenty years, fined not less than fifty thousand nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, or both.",
   "los_min": "10Y",
   "los_max": "20Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:87.6.1\n\n\u00a787.6.1. Coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud\n\nA. Coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud is committed when a person\nknowingly and intentionally engages in the use of an abortion-inducing drug on a pregnant\nwoman, without her knowledge or consent, with the intent to cause an abortion.\n\nB.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, whoever commits the\ncrime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud shall be imprisoned at hard labor for\nnot less than five nor more than ten years, fined not less than ten thousand nor more than\nseventy-five thousand dollars, or both.\n\n(2) Whoever commits the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud\nwhen the unborn child is more than three months of gestational age shall be imprisoned at\nhard labor for not less than ten nor more than twenty years, fined not less than fifty thousand\nnor more than one hundred thousand dollars, or both.\n\nC. The prosecution of a person pursuant to this Section shall not be a defense against\nthe prosecution under any other provision of law, including murder or attempted murder,\nshould the person commit the crime of coerced criminal abortion by means of fraud and the\nuse of an abortion-inducing drug results in the death or serious bodily injury of the pregnant\nwoman.\n\nActs 2024, No. 246, \u00a71, eff. Oct. 1, 2024."
}