§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, eff. August 1, 2014;
Acts 2022, No. 545, §2, eff. August 1, 2022.