Louisiana § RS 14:87.2 - Human experimentation on an infant born alive
Full text of Louisiana Louisiana Civil Code § RS 14:87.2 — Human experimentation on an infant born alive, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ RS 14:87.2. Human experimentation on an infant born alive
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.
Added by Acts 1973, No. 77, §1; Acts 2014, No. 791, §7; Acts 2022, No. 545, §2.
Source: official Louisiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section RS 14:87.2 ("Human experimentation on an infant born alive") is part of the Louisiana Civil Code, the codified statutory law of Louisiana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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