Any person who intentionally terminates a human pregnancy after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy where death of the fetus results commits feticide. Feticide is a class "C" felony.
Any person who attempts to intentionally terminate a human pregnancy after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy where death of the fetus does not result commits attempted feticide. Attempted feticide is a class "D" felony.
This section shall not apply to the termination of a human pregnancy performed by a physician licensed in this state to practice medicine or surgery when in the best clinical judgment of the physician the termination is performed to preserve the life or health of the pregnant person or of the fetus and every reasonable medical effort not inconsistent with preserving the life of the pregnant person is made to preserve the life of a viable fetus.
Any person who terminates a human pregnancy who is not a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery under the provisions of chapter 148, or an osteopathic physician and surgeon licensed to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery under the provisions of chapter 150A, commits a class "C" felony.
[R60, § 4221; C73, § 3864; C97, § 4759; SS15, § 4759; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12973; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 701.1; C79, 81, § 707.7]
Definition of "viability", § 702.20
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