{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-90-21.141","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-21.141","heading":"Findings.","body":"The General Assembly makes the following findings:\n(1)\tIf an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of North Carolina and entitled to all the protections of such laws.\n(2)\tAny infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn, or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care. (2023-14, s. 3(a).)","path":["Chapter 90. Medicine and Allied Occupations.","Article 1M. Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_90/GS_90-21.141.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:12:48Z","sha256":"13ccc2e58c4aaa68767e2941ff995b7f3347ac22d1c0919795937fc6e82149cc","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-90-21.140","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-90-21.142"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}