Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 707.7 (2026)

Feticide

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1. Any person who intentionally terminates a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy where death of the fetus results commits feticide. Feticide is a class “C” felony. 2. Any person who attempts to intentionally terminate a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, after the end of the second trimester of the pregnancy where death of the fetus does not result commits attempted feticide. Attempted feticide is a class “D” felony. 3. Any person who terminates a human pregnancy, with the knowledge and voluntary consent of the pregnant person, who is not a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery under the provisions of chapter 148, commits a class “C” felony. 4. This section shall not apply to the termination of a human pregnancy performed by a physician licensed in this state to practice medicine or surgery or osteopathic medicine or surgery when in the best clinical judgment of the physician the termination is performed to preserve the life or health of the pregnant person or of the fetus and every reasonable medical effort not inconsistent with preserving the life of the pregnant person is made to preserve the life of a viable fetus. [R60, §4221; C73, §3864; C97, §4759; SS15, §4759; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12973; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §701.1; C79, 81, §707.7] 96 Acts, ch 1077, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §175 Referred to in §714I.4 Definition of “viability”, §702.20

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1994–2017 · leading case: Pamela Plowman & Jeremy Plowman v. Fort Madison Cmty. Hosp., Pil Kang, John Paiva, Davis Radiology, P.C., Leah Steffensmeier, the Women's Ctr., & Fort Madison Physicians & Surgeons, 896 N.W.2d 393 (Iowa 2017).

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Pamela Plowman & Jeremy Plowman v. Fort Madison Cmty. Hosp., Pil Kang, John Paiva, Davis Radiology, P.C., Leah Steffensmeier, the Women's Ctr., & Fort Madison Physicians & Surgeons, 896 N.W.2d 393 (Iowa 2017). · cites it 4× “Iowa Code § 707.7 (1), (4). 12The Iowa legislature recently enacted chapter 146B, which prohibits abortions after twenty weeks of fetal gestation other than cases of medical emergency.”

People v. Davis, 872 P.2d 591 (Cal. 1994). · cites it 2× “" ( Iowa Code Ann. § 707.7 .) In New York, homicide includes the killing of "a person or an unborn child with which a female has been pregnant for more than twenty-four weeks" ( N.”

Amended August 8, 2017 Pamela Plowman & Jeremy Plowman v. Fort Madison Cmty. Hosp., Pil Kang, John Paiva, Davis Radiology, P.C., Leah Steffensmeier, the Women's Ctr., & Fort Madison Physicians & Surgeons (Iowa 2017). · cites it 2× “Iowa Code § 707.7 (1), (4). 12The Iowa legislature recently enacted chapter 146B, which prohibits abortions after twenty weeks of fetal gestation other than cases of medical emergency.”

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