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MS Code § 41-41-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent|§ 41-41-53. Requirement of written consent; petition for waiver

  Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no person shall perform an abortion upon an unemancipated minor unless he or his agent first obtains the written consent of both parents or the legal guardian of the minor.     If the minor's parents are divorced or otherwise unmarried and living separate and apart, then the written consent of the parent with primary custody, care and control of such minor shall be sufficient.   If the minor's parents are married and one (1) parent is not available to the person performing the abortion in a reasonable time and manner, then the written consent of the parent who is available shall be sufficient.   If the minor's pregnancy was caused by sexual intercourse with the minor's natural father, adoptive father or stepfather, then the written consent of the minor's mother shall be sufficient.     A minor who elects not to seek or does not obtain consent from her parents or legal guardian under this section may petition, on her own behalf or by next friend, the chancery court in the county in which the minor resides or in the county in which the abortion is to be performed for a waiver of the consent requirement of this section pursuant to the procedures of Section 41-41-55.
MS Code § 41-41-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent|§ 41-41-55. Applicability of provisions; court proceedings; standards for waiver of consent requirement

  The requirements and procedures under Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 shall apply and are available to minors whether or not they are residents of this state.   The minor may participate in proceedings in the court on her own behalf. The court shall advise her that she has a right to court-appointed counsel and shall provide her with such counsel upon her request or if she is not already adequately represented.   Court proceedings under this section shall be confidential and anonymous and shall be given such precedence over other pending matters as is necessary to insure that the court may reach a decision promptly, but in no case shall the court fail to rule within seventy-two (72) hours of the time the application is filed. If for any reason the court fails to rule within seventy-two (72) hours of the time the application is filed, the minor may proceed as if the consent requirement of Section 41-41-53 has been waived.   Consent shall be waived if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence either:   That the minor is mature and well-informed enough to make the abortion decision on her own; or   That performance of the abortion would be in the best interests of the minor.     A court that conducts proceedings under this section shall issue written and specific factual findings and legal conclusions supporting its decision and shall order that a confidential record of the evidence be maintained.   An expedited confidential and anonymous appeal shall be available to any minor to whom the court denies a waiver of consent. The Mississippi Supreme Court shall issue promptly such rules and regulations as are necessary to insure that proceedings under Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 are handled in an expeditious, confidential and anonymous manner.   No filing fees shall be required of any minor who avails herself of the procedures provided by this section.
MS Code § 41-41-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent|§ 41-41-57. Exception for medical emergency

 Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 shall not apply when, in the best clinical judgment of the physician on the facts of the case before him, a medical emergency exists that so complicates the pregnancy as to require an immediate abortion. A physician who does not comply with Sections 41-41-53 and 41-41-55 by reason of this exception shall state in the medical record of the abortion the medical indications on which his judgment was based.
MS Code § 41-41-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent|§ 41-41-59. Violation of provisions as prima facie evidence of physician's unprofessional conduct

 If a physician performs an abortion in violation of the provisions of Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 or fails to conform to any requirement of Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63, then his action shall be prima facie evidence of unprofessional conduct, subjecting him to action by the State Board of Medical Licensure.
MS Code § 41-41-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent|§ 41-41-61. Confidentiality of records and information; penalty for disclosure

  Records and information involving court proceedings conducted pursuant to Section 41-41-55 shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed other than to the minor, her attorney and necessary court personnel. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the keeping of statistical records and information as long as the anonymity of the minor is in no way compromised.   Any person who shall disclose any records or information made confidential pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or both.
MS Code § 41-41-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Performance of Abortions Upon Minors; Consent|§ 41-41-63. Severability of provisions

 If any provision, word, phrase or clause of Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the provisions, words, phrases, clauses or application of Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 which can be given effect without the invalid provision, word, phrase, clause or application, and to this end the provisions, words, phrases and clauses of Sections 41-41-51 through 41-41-63 are declared to be severable.
MS Code § 41-41-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act|§ 41-41-71. Short title

 Sections 41-41-71 through 41-41-73 may be cited as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
MS Code § 41-41-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act|§ 41-41-73. Partial-birth abortions prohibited; penalties for violations

  Any physician who knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) or imprisoned in the State Penitentiary for not more than two (2) years, or both. This subsection shall not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury if no other medical procedure would suffice for that purpose.     As used in this section, "partial-birth abortion" means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery.   As used in this section, "physician" means a doctor of medicine or osteopathy legally authorized to practice medicine and surgery by the State of Mississippi. However, any individual who is not a physician but who nevertheless directly performs a partial-birth abortion shall be subject to the provisions of this section.       The husband of a mother at the time she receives a partial-birth abortion procedure, and if the mother has not attained the age of eighteen (18) years at the time of the abortion, the mother's parents may in a civil action obtain appropriate relief, unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal conduct or the plaintiff consented to the abortion.   Such relief shall include:   Money damages for all injuries, psychological and physical, occasioned by the violation of this section; and   Statutory damages equal to three (3) times the cost of the partial-birth abortion.       A woman upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed may not be prosecuted under this section for a conspiracy to violate this section.
MS Code § 41-41-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Abortion Complication Reporting Act|§ 41-41-75. Short Title

 Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 shall be known and may be cited as the Abortion Complication Reporting Act.
MS Code § 41-41-76 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Abortion Complication Reporting Act|§ 41-41-76. Definitions

 As used in Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80:   "Abortion" has the meaning as defined in Section 41-41-31.   "Medical treatment" means, but is not limited to, hospitalization, laboratory tests, surgery or prescription of drugs.   "Department" means the State Department of Health.
MS Code § 41-41-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Abortion Complication Reporting Act|§ 41-41-77. Physicians to file regular reports to state on patients treated or dying in abortion procedures; confidentiality; sanctions for breach of confidentiality

  A physician shall file a written report with the State Department of Health regarding each patient who comes under the physician's professional care and requires medical treatment or suffers death that the attending physician has a reasonable basis to believe is a primary, secondary, or tertiary result of an induced abortion.   These reports shall be submitted within thirty (30) days of the discharge or death of the patient treated for the complication.   The department shall summarize aggregate data from the reports required under this section for purposes of inclusion into the annual Vital Statistics Report.   The department shall develop and distribute or make available online in a downloadable format a standardized form for the report required under this section.   The department shall communicate this reporting requirement to all medical professional organizations, licensed physicians, hospitals, emergency rooms, abortion facilities, Department of Health clinics and ambulatory surgical facilities operating in the state.   The department shall destroy each individual report required by this section and each copy of the report after retaining the report for five (5) years after the date the report is received.   The report required under this section shall not contain the name of the woman, common identifiers such as her social security number or motor vehicle operator's license number or other information or identifiers that would make it possible to identify in any manner or under any circumstances an individual who has obtained or seeks to obtain an abortion. A state agency shall not compare data in an electronic or other information system file with data in another electronic or other information system that would result in identifying in any manner or under any circumstances an individual obtaining or seeking to obtain an abortion. Statistical information that may reveal the identity of a woman obtaining or seeking to obtain an abortion shall not be maintained.   The department or an employee of the department shall not disclose to a person or entity outside the department the reports or the contents of the reports required under this section in a manner or fashion as to permit the person or entity to whom the report is disclosed to identify in any way the person who is the subject of the report.   Disclosure of confidential identifying information in violation of this section shall constitute a felony which, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not more than three (3) years, or a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
MS Code § 41-41-78 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Abortion Complication Reporting Act|§ 41-41-78. Content of reports

  Each report of medical treatment following abortion required under Section 41-41-77 shall contain the following information:   The age and race of the patient;   The characteristics of the patient, including residency status, county of residence, marital status, education, number of previous pregnancies, number of stillbirths, number of living children and number of previous abortions;   The date the abortion was performed and the method used if known;   The type of facility where the abortion was performed;   The condition of the patient that led to treatment, including, but not limited to, pelvic infection, hemorrhage, damage to pelvic organs, renal failure, metabolic disorder, shock, embolism, coma or death.   The amount billed to cover the treatment of the complication, including whether the treatment was billed to Medicaid, insurance, private pay or other method. This should include charges for physician, hospital, emergency room, prescription or other drugs, laboratory tests and any other costs for the treatment rendered.   The charges are to be coded with IDC-9 classification numbers in such a way as to distinguish treatment following induced abortions from treatments following ectopic or molar pregnancies.     Nothing in Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 shall be construed as an instruction to discontinue collecting data currently being collected.
MS Code § 41-41-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Abortion Complication Reporting Act|§ 41-41-79. Liability

 Willful violation of the provisions of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as provided for by law, except that disclosure of confidential identifying information shall constitute a felony as provided in subsection (9) of Section 41-41-77. No physician or hospital, its officers, employees or medical and nursing personnel practicing in the hospital shall be civilly liable for violation of the provisions of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80, except to the extent of liability for actual damages in a civil action for willful or reckless and wanton acts or omissions constituting that violation. However, that liability shall be subject to any immunities or limitations of liability or damages provided by law.
MS Code § 41-41-80 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Abortion Complication Reporting Act|§ 41-41-80. Severability

 The provisions of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 are declared to be severable, and if any provision, word, phrase, or clause of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80 or the application thereof to any person is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of Sections 41-41-75 through 41-41-80.
MS Code § 41-41-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Public Funding of Abortions|§ 41-41-91. Use of public funds for abortions prohibited; exceptions

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no public funds that are made available to any institution, board, commission, department, agency, official, or employee of the State of Mississippi, or of any local political subdivision of the state, whether those funds are made available by the government of the United States, the State of Mississippi, or a local governmental subdivision, or from any other public source, shall be used in any way for, to assist in, or to provide facilities for abortion, except:   When the abortion is medically necessary to prevent the death of the mother; or   When the abortion is being sought to terminate a pregnancy resulting from an alleged act of rape or incest; or   When there is a fetal malformation that is incompatible with the baby being born alive.
MS Code § 41-41-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act|§ 41-41-95. Title

 Sections 41-41-95 through 41-41-99 may be known and cited as the "Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act."
MS Code § 41-41-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act|§ 41-41-97. Legislative findings and purpose

  The Legislature of the State of Mississippi finds that under Section 1303 of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, states are explicitly permitted to pass laws prohibiting qualified health plans offered through an exchange in their state from offering abortion coverage.   It is the purpose of Sections 41-41-95 through 41-41-99 to affirmatively opt out of allowing qualified health plans that cover abortions to participate in exchanges within the State of Mississippi.
MS Code § 41-41-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Federal Abortion-Mandate Opt-Out Act|§ 41-41-99. Opt-out

  No abortion coverage may be provided by a qualified health plan offered through an exchange created pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act within the State of Mississippi.   This limitation shall not apply to an abortion performed (a) when the life of the mother is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, or (b) when the pregnancy is the result of an alleged act of rape or incest.The physician is required to maintain sufficient documentation in the medical record that supports the medical necessity for the abortion for one of the reasons outlined in this subsection (2).
MS Code § 41-41-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Women's Health Defense Act of 2013|§ 41-41-101. Short title

 Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 may be known and cited as the "Women's Health Defense Act of 2013."
MS Code § 41-41-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Women's Health Defense Act of 2013|§ 41-41-103. Legislative findings; purpose

  The Legislature finds that:   The use of abortion-inducing drugs presents significant medical risks to women, including, but not limited to, abdominal pain, cramping, vomiting, headache, fatigue, uterine hemorrhage, viral infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, severe bacterial infection and death.   Abortion-inducing drugs are associated with an increased risk of complications relative to surgical abortion. The risk of complications increases with increasing gestational age.   In July 2011, the FDA reported two thousand two hundred seven (2,207) adverse events in the United States after women used abortion-inducing drugs for the termination of pregnancy. Among those were fourteen (14) deaths, six hundred twelve (612) hospitalizations, three hundred thirty-nine (339) blood transfusions, and two hundred fifty-six (256) infections (including forty-eight (48) "severe infections").   Medical evidence demonstrates that women who use abortion-inducing drugs incur more complications than those who have surgical abortions.     Based on the findings in subsection (1) of this section, it is the purpose of Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117 to:   Protect women from the dangerous and potentially deadly use of abortion-inducing drugs when administration of the drugs does not meet the standard of care; and   Ensure that physicians meet the standard of care when giving, selling, dispensing, administering or otherwise providing or prescribing abortion-inducing drugs.
MS Code § 41-41-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|Women's Health Defense Act of 2013|§ 41-41-105. Definitions

 As used in Sections 41-41-101 through 41-41-117, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed in this section unless the context indicates otherwise:   "Abortion-inducing drug" means a medicine, drug or any other substance prescribed or dispensed with the intent of terminating the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman to cause the death of the unborn child. This includes the use of drugs known to have abortion-inducing properties, which are prescribed specifically with the intent of causing an abortion. Use of those drugs to induce abortion is also known as "medical abortion." This definition does not apply to drugs that may be known to cause an abortion but are prescribed for other medical indications (e.g., chemotherapeutic agents and diagnostic drugs).   "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug or any other substance, device or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman to cause the death of the unborn child. That use, prescription or means is not an abortion if done with the intent to:   Save the life of the mother;   Save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child;   Remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion;   Remove an ectopic pregnancy;   Prevent hemorrhaging by the pregnant woman; or   Treat a maternal disease or illness other than pregnancy for which the prescribed drug is indicated.   "Department" means the State Department of Health.   "LMP" or "gestational age" means the time that has elapsed since the first day of the woman's last menstrual period.   "Physician" means any medical doctor (M.D.) or osteopathic doctor (D.O.) licensed to practice medicine in this state.   "Pregnant" or "pregnancy" means the female reproductive condition of having an unborn child in the woman's uterus.   "Unborn child" means the offspring of human beings from conception until birth.