Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 188 - Regulation of Abortions
Section 188.036 - Prohibited abortions, those done with intent to use fetal organs or tissue for transplant, experiments or for consideration, exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988
188.036. Prohibited abortions, those done with intent to use fetal organs or tissue for transplant, experiments or for consideration, exceptions. — 1. No physician shall perform an abortion on a woman if the physician knows that the woman conceived the unborn child for the purpose of providing fetal organs or tissue for medical transplantation to herself or another, and the physician knows that the woman intends to procure the abortion to utilize those organs or tissue for such use for herself or another.
2. No person shall utilize the fetal organs or tissue resulting from an abortion for medical transplantation, if the person knows that the abortion was procured for the purpose of utilizing those organs or tissue for such use.
3. No person shall offer any inducement, monetary or otherwise, to a woman or a prospective father of an unborn child for the purpose of conceiving an unborn child for the medical, scientific, experimental or therapeutic use of the fetal organs or tissue.
4. No person shall offer any inducement, monetary or otherwise, to the mother or father of an unborn child for the purpose of procuring an abortion for the medical, scientific, experimental or therapeutic use of the fetal organs or tissue.
5. No person shall knowingly offer or receive any valuable consideration for the fetal organs or tissue resulting from an abortion, provided that nothing in this subsection shall prohibit payment for burial or other final disposition of the fetal remains, or payment for a pathological examination, autopsy or postmortem examination of the fetal remains.
6. If any provision in this section or the application thereof to any person, circumstance or period of gestation is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the provisions or applications which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this section are declared severable.
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(L. 1988 H.B. 1479)

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Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title XII - Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 188 - Regulation of Abortions

Section 188.010 - Intent of general assembly.

Section 188.015 - Definitions.

Section 188.017 - Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act — limitation on abortions, when — affirmative defense — contingent effective date.

Section 188.018 - Severability clause.

Section 188.020 - Physician, required to perform.

Section 188.021 - RU-486, administration of, requirements — limitation on prescribing certain abortion-inducing drugs and chemicals, when, complication plan required — rulemaking authority.

Section 188.023 - Reports of rape or under age eighteen sexual abuse, required to report, how.

Section 188.025 - Hospital required, when.

Section 188.026 - Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act — findings of general assembly — interests of the state of Missouri.

Section 188.027 - Consent, voluntary and informed, required — procedure, contents — information to be presented in person — information on risks — medical emergency, procedure — payment prohibited, when — written materials required, when — emergency...

Section 188.028 - Minors, abortion requirements and procedure.

Section 188.030 - Abortion of viable unborn child prohibited, exceptions — physician duties — violations, penalty — severability — right of intervention, when.

Section 188.031 - Next friend defined for purposes of the procedure for a minor to obtain an abortion.

Section 188.033 - Out-of-state abortion facilities, in-state facilities giving information about, requirements.

Section 188.035 - Death of child aborted alive deemed murder in second degree, when.

Section 188.036 - Prohibited abortions, those done with intent to use fetal organs or tissue for transplant, experiments or for consideration, exceptions.

Section 188.037 - Experimentation with fetus, or child aborted alive, prohibited, exception.

Section 188.038 - Pregnant women, bias or discrimination against — findings of general assembly — limitations on performing an abortion, when.

Section 188.039 - Seventy-two hour waiting period for abortions required — medical emergency exception, definition — informed consent requirements — department to provide model consent forms — waiting period restrained or enjoined, effect of.

Section 188.043 - Medical malpractice insurance required to perform an abortion.

Section 188.044 - Drug or chemical used to induce abortion, warning of birth defects, disability, or other injury — tail insurance required, amount.

Section 188.047 - Tissue submitted for examination — pathologist to file report, copies furnished — department to reconcile notice of abortion to tissue report — annual report required, contents — rulemaking authority.

Section 188.052 - Physician's report on abortion and post-abortion care, when — department to publish statistics.

Section 188.055 - Forms to be supplied to health facilities and physicians.

Section 188.056 - Abortion prohibited after eight weeks gestational age, exception for medical emergency — violation, penalty — severability clause.

Section 188.057 - Abortion prohibited after fourteen weeks gestational age, exception for medical emergency — violation, penalty — severability clause.

Section 188.058 - Abortion prohibited after eighteen weeks gestational age, exception for medical emergency — violation, penalty — severability clause.

Section 188.060 - Records to be retained for seven years.

Section 188.065 - Revocation of license, when.

Section 188.070 - Breach of confidentiality prohibited.

Section 188.075 - Violation of sections 188.010 to 188.085 a class A misdemeanor — affirmative defense — jurisdiction of attorney general.

Section 188.080 - Abortion performed by other than a physician with clinical privileges at a hospital, a felony.

Section 188.085 - Sections 188.010 to 188.085 not to be deemed exclusive of other regulations or remedies.

Section 188.100 - Definitions.

Section 188.105 - Discrimination by employer prohibited because of failure of employee to participate in abortion — exceptions.

Section 188.110 - Discrimination by colleges, universities and hospitals prohibited — no requirement to pay fees, when.

Section 188.115 - Severability clause.

Section 188.120 - Cause of action for violation of discrimination laws, treble damages, attorney's fees.

Section 188.125 - Alternatives to abortion agency, intent to acknowledge certain right of — state preemption, when — actions to enforce, authorized relief — definitions.

Section 188.130 - No cause of action for wrongful life.

Section 188.160 - Whistleblower protection policy, required when — rulemaking authority.

Section 188.200 - Definitions.

Section 188.205 - Use of public funds prohibited, when.

Section 188.210 - Public employees, activities prohibited, when.

Section 188.215 - Use of public facilities prohibited, when.

Section 188.220 - Taxpayer standing to bring suit, when, where.

Section 188.230 - Construction of law.

Section 188.250 - Causing, aiding, or assisting a minor to obtain an abortion prohibited, civil penalty — impermissible defenses — court injunction authorized, when.

Section 188.325 - Program established, services provided — matching moneys to be sought — moneys not to be used for abortions or abortion services.

Section 188.335 - Program established, purpose — matching moneys to be sought — moneys not to be used for abortions or abortion services.

Section 188.375 - Citation of act — definition — limitation on abortion, when — violation, penalty — method or technique to be utilized — severability clause.