Title 76 Chapter 7 Section 308

Utah Criminal Code
Offenses Against the Family
Section 308
Medical skills required to preserve life of unborn child.

            

76-7-308.   Medical skills required to preserve life of unborn child.

            Consistent with the purpose of saving the life of the woman or preventing grave damage to the woman's medical health, the physician performing the abortion must use all of his medical skills to attempt to promote, preserve and maintain the life of any unborn child sufficiently developed to have any reasonable possibility of survival outside of the mother's womb.


Amended by Chapter 2, 1991 Special Session 1