707.7 Feticide.
1. Any person who intentionally terminates a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy where death of the fetus results commits feticide. Feticide is a class “C” felony.
2. Any person who attempts to intentionally terminate a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, 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.
3. Any person who terminates a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, who is not a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the provisions of chapter 148, commits a class “C” felony.
4. 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 or osteopathic 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.
[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]
96 Acts, ch 1077, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §175
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.