IC 16-34-2-0.5: Medical emergency
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 16. HEALTH
- ARTICLE 34. ABORTION
- Chapter 2. Requirements for Performance of Abortion; Criminal Penalties
Sec. 0.5. A medical emergency, for purposes of this chapter, does not include a patient's claim or diagnosis that the patient would engage in conduct that would result in the patient's death or substantial physical impairment. Under the circumstances described in this section and unless the following would pose a great risk of death or substantial physical impairment of the patient, the physician shall terminate the patient's pregnancy in a manner that, in a physician's reasonable medical judgment, would result in the best opportunity for the fetus to survive.
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