Code of Alabama - Title 26: Infants and Incompetents - Chapter 23B - Alabama Pain-capable Unborn Child Protection Act

• Section 26-23B-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
• Section 26-23B-2 Legislative findings
  The Legislature makes all of the following findings: (1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child's entire body by no later than 16...
• Section 26-23B-3 Definitions
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or...
• Section 26-23B-4 Determination of postfertilization age of unborn child
  (a) Except in the case of a medical emergency, no abortion shall be performed or induced or be attempted to be performed or induced unless...
• Section 26-23B-5 Abortion prohibited where postfertilization age of unborn child at least 20 weeks; exception
  (a) No person shall perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion upon a woman when it has been determined, by the...
• Section 26-23B-6 Criminal penalties
  Any person who intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly performs or induces or attempts to perform or induce an abortion in violation of this chapter is guilty...
• Section 26-23B-7 Civil remedies
  (a) Any woman upon whom an abortion has been performed or induced in violation of this chapter, or the father of the unborn child who...
• Section 26-23B-8 Preservation of anonymity
  In every civil or criminal proceeding or action brought under this chapter, the court shall rule whether the anonymity of any woman upon whom an...
• Section 26-23B-9 Construction with other laws
  The provisions of this chapter are supplemental to and shall be read in pari materia with Chapter 22 of this title, relating to the abortion...

Last modified: May 3, 2021