La. Rev. Stat. § 14:87.2
Human experimentation on an infant born alive
Louisiana · Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 14 — Criminal Law · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- La. Rev. Stat. § 14:87.2, Human experimentation on an infant born alive, Louisiana, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-04, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2696720
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:2696720@1- SHA-256
fa0ab1d32a9e147811829105c532b540022a987c85fa4bcb4facdc050020aca0
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
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.