707.10 Duty to preserve the life of the fetus.
A person who performs or induces a termination of a human pregnancy and who willfully fails to exercise that degree of professional skill, care, and diligence available to preserve the life and health of a viable fetus shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
[C79, 81, §707.10]
Definition of “viability”, §702.20
Structure Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 707 - HOMICIDE AND RELATED CRIMES
Section 707.1 - Murder defined.
Section 707.2 - Murder in the first degree.
Section 707.3 - Murder in the second degree.
Section 707.3A - Solicitation to commit murder.
Section 707.4 - Voluntary manslaughter.
Section 707.5 - Involuntary manslaughter.
Section 707.6 - Civil liability.
Section 707.6A - Homicide or serious injury by vehicle.
Section 707.8 - Nonconsensual termination — serious injury to a human pregnancy.
Section 707.8A - Partial-birth abortion prohibited — exceptions — penalties.
Section 707.9 - Murder of fetus aborted alive.