Arkansas · Arkansas Code of 1987 — full code (public domain; via Open US Law, CC BY 4.0)

Ark. Code § 20-16-1203: Ark. Code Ann. § 20-16-1203

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

Arkansas law makes it a Class D felony for any person to knowingly perform a partial-birth abortion that kills a human fetus, except when necessary to save the mother's life. The pregnant woman cannot be prosecuted.

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