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§ 188.037 — Experimentation with fetus, or child aborted alive, prohibited, exception.

Missouri § 188.037
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XIIPUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Ch. 188Regulation of Abortions

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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 188.037 (2026).

Text

No person shall use any fetus or child aborted alive for any type of scientific, research, laboratory or other kind of experimentation either prior to or subsequent to any abortion procedure except as necessary to protect or preserve the life and health of such fetus or child aborted alive.

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Legislative History

(L. 1979 H.B. 523, et al.) Effective 6-29-79

Nearby Sections

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§ 188.010
Intent of general assembly.
§ 188.015
Definitions.
§ 188.017
Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act — limitation on abortions, when — affirmative defense — contingent effective date.
§ 188.018
Severability clause.
§ 188.020
Physician, required to perform.
§ 188.021
RU-486, administration of, requirements — limitation on prescribing certain abortion-inducing drugs and chemicals, when, complication plan required — rulemaking authority.
§ 188.023
Reports of rape or under age eighteen sexual abuse, required to report, how.
§ 188.025
Hospital required, when.
§ 188.026
Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act — findings of general assembly — interests of the state of Missouri.
§ 188.027
Consent, voluntary and informed, required — procedure, contents — information to be presented in person — information on risks — medical emergency, procedure — payment prohibited, when — written materials required, when — emergency rules authorized — waiting period restrained or enjoined, effect of.
§ 188.028
Minors, abortion requirements and procedure.
§ 188.030
Abortion of viable unborn child prohibited, exceptions — physician duties — violations, penalty — severability — right of intervention, when.
§ 188.031
Next friend defined for purposes of the procedure for a minor to obtain an abortion.
§ 188.033
Out-of-state abortion facilities, in-state facilities giving information about, requirements.
§ 188.035
Death of child aborted alive deemed murder in second degree, when.
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