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Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
A. Human experimentation is the use of any infant who is born alive, without consent of that live born human being, for any scientific or laboratory research or any other kind of experimentation or study except to protect or preserve the life and health of the live born human being, or the conduct, on a human embryo or fetus in utero, of any experimentation or study except to preserve the life or to improve the health of the human embryo or fetus.
B. Whoever commits the crime of human experimentation on an infant born alive shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than twenty years, or fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or both.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 14, § 87.2. Human experimentation on an infant born alive - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/la/revised-statutes/la-rev-stat-tit-14-sect-87-2/
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