Section 308.5 - Administration of anesthetic or analgesic to an unborn child.

UT Code § 76-7-308.5 (2019) (N/A)

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(1) the abortion is necessary to avert: (a) the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or (b) a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed;

(a) the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or (b) a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed;

(2) the abortion is performed because the fetus has a defect that is uniformly diagnosable and uniformly lethal, based on the written concurrence of two physicians who practice maternal fetal medicine; or

(3) the treating physician and one other physician concur, in writing, that the administration of an anesthetic or analgesic would: (a) cause the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or (b) create a serious risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed.

(a) cause the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or

(b) create a serious risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed.

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