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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES:145B Living Wills145B.13 Reasonable Medical Practice Required145 C Health Care Directives
145B.14 Certain Practices not Condoned [Euthanasia]
MEDICAL EDUCATION AND LICENSINGChapter 146 - Healing Arts, RegistrationChapter 147 - Board of Medical Practice: Examination; Licensing
147.0391 Residency Permit
147.091 Grounds for Disciplinary Action
147.092 Probable Cause Hearing; Sexual Misconduct
147.111 Reporting Obligations
147.121 Immunity [for reporting]
147.131 Physician Cooperation
147. 141 Forms of Disciplinary Action
147.161 Physician Accountability
MEDICAL PRACTICEVital Statistics Act (144.211-144.227)144.211 CitationPrenatal Exposure
144.212 Definitions
144.215 Birth Registration
144.221 Death Registration
144.2215 Birth Defects Registry System
144.222 Reports of Fetal or Infant Death
144.225 Disclosure of Information from Vital Records145.9265 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Effects and Drug-Exposed Infant PreventionDeath
145.9266 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Campaign and Education
626.5561 Reporting of Prenatal Exposure to Controlled Substances
626.5562 Toxicology Tests Required
626.5563 Reporting Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol Abuse145.135 Determination of DeathAbortion
145.898 Sudden Infant Death
145.90 Fetal, Infant and Maternal Death Studies145.1621 Disposition of Aborted or Miscarried FetusesCrimes Against Unborn Children (609.266-609.2691)
145.411 Regulation of Abortions; Definitions
145.412 Criminal Acts
145.413 Recording and Reporting Health Data
145.4131 Recording and Reporting Abortion Data
145.4132 Recording and Reporting Abortion Complication Data
145.4133 Reporting Out-of-State Abortions
145.4134 Commissioner's Public Report
145.4135 Enforcement; Penalties
145.414 Abortion not Mandatory
145.415 Live Fetus after Abortion, Treatment
145.416 Licensing and Regulation of Facilities
145.42 Abortions; Nonliablility for Refusal to Perform
145.421 Human Conceptus, Experimentation, Research or Sale; Definitions
145.422 Experimentation or Sale
145.423 Abortion; Live Births
145.424 Prohibition of Tort Actions ["Wrongful Life Action"]
617.20 Drugs to Produce Miscarriage
617.21 Evidence609.266 Definitions
609.2661 Murder of an Unborn Child in the First Degree
609.2662 Murder of an Unborn Child in the Second Degree
609.2663 Murder of an Unborn Child in the Third Degree
609.2664 Manslaughter of an Unborn Child in the First Degree
609.2665 Manslaughter of an Unborn Child in the Second Degree
609.2666 Manslaughter of an Unborn Child in the Third Degree
609.267 Assault of an Unborn Child in the First Degree
609.2671 Assault of an Unborn Child in the Second Degree
609.2672 Assault of an Unborn Child in the Third Degree
609.268 Injury or Death of an Unborn Child in Commission of a Crime
609.269 Exception
MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH / EDUCATION145.881 Maternal and Child Health Advisory Task Force
145.882 Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Distribution
145.902 Safe Place for Newborns; Hospital Duties and Immunity from Liability
145.905 Location for Breast-Feeding
145.925 Family Planning Grants
145.9261 Abstinence Education Grant Program