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Culture & Conversation Sexual Health
This law was last updated on Jun 28, 2016
This law is Anti–Choice
HF 2140
Failed to Pass
Feb 2, 2016
Primary Sponsors: 15
Total Sponsors: 15
HF 2140 would prohibit the buying or selling of or experimentation on an “unborn infant” or the bodily remains resulting from an abortion.
The bill prohibits a person from:
A person who knowingly violates this provision would be guilty of a class “C” felony punishable by confinement of up to 1o years and a fine of anywhere between $1,000 and $10,000. An entity or program that is found to have violated this provision may lose state funding,
The bill provides that a fetal death certificate is to be filed for all fetal deaths occurring at the stage of an “unborn infant’s” development at which bodily remains are evident, not only for those after a gestation period of 20 completed weeks or greater, or for a dead unborn infant with a weight of 350 grams or more.
The bill also establishes a process for the release to a mother or her authorized representative of fetal bodily remains following a fetal death, or in the alternative, provides for the disposition of fetal bodily remains by the funeral director, the individual in charge of the institution where the bodily remains were extracted, or by a person assuming responsibility for the bodily remains.
HF 2140 makes conforming changes in Code Chapter 144 to replace the term “fetus” with the term “unborn infant” and defines “unborn infant” as the offspring of a human being from conception until birth.