North Carolina § 90-21.142 Requirements for health care practitioners

North Carolina Statutes

§ 90-21.142 — Requirements for health care practitioners

North Carolina § 90-21.142

Ch. 90Medicine and Allied Occupations

Art. 1MBorn-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-21.142 (2026).

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In the case of an abortion or an attempt to perform an abortion that results in a child born alive, any health care practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall do all of the following:

(1)Exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.

(2)Following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under subdivision (1) of this section, ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. (2023-14, s. 3(a).)

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In the case of an abortion or an attempt to perform an abortion that results in a child born alive, any health care practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall do all of the following:
(1) Exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.
(2) Following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under subdivision (1) of this section, ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital. (2023-14, s. 3(a).)