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4 | 4 | SENATE BILL 1011 | |
5 | 5 | By Oliver | |
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8 | 8 | SB1011 | |
9 | 9 | 001096 | |
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12 | 12 | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, | |
13 | 13 | Chapter 15, Part 2, relative to criminal abortion. | |
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15 | 15 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: | |
16 | 16 | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-15-213, is amended by adding | |
17 | 17 | the following new subsection: | |
18 | 18 | (g) It is an exception to the application of subsection (b) that the person who | |
19 | 19 | performed or attempted to perform the abortion was a licensed physician and the | |
20 | 20 | patient's pregnancy was the result of aggravated rape, as defined in § 39-13-502; rape, | |
21 | 21 | as defined in § 39-13-503; rape of a child, as defined in § 39-13-522; especially | |
22 | 22 | aggravated rape, as defined in § 39-13-534; especially aggravated rape of a child, as | |
23 | 23 | defined in § 39-13-535; or incest, as defined in § 39-15-302. | |
24 | 24 | SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. |