Administration of anesthetic or analgesic to an unborn child.

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  • (1) the abortion is necessary to avert:
    • (a) the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or
      (b) a serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed;
  • (2) the abortion is performed because the fetus has a defect that is uniformly diagnosable and uniformly lethal, based on the written concurrence of two physicians who practice maternal fetal medicine; or
  • (3) the treating physician and one other physician concur, in writing, that the administration of an anesthetic or analgesic would:
    • (a) cause the death of the woman on whom the abortion is performed; or
    • (b) create a serious risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the woman on whom the abortion is performed.




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