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Iowa Code § 707.10

Duty to preserve the life of the fetus

[C79, 81, §707.10]

A person who performs or induces a termination of a human pregnancy and who willfully fails to exercise that degree of professional skill, care, and diligence available to preserve the life and health of a viable fetus shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

Definition of “viability”, §702.20

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