Oregon HB4087 mandates health care practitioners to provide the same standard of care to infants born alive, regardless of the circumstances of their.
Oregon HB4087, known as the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, requires health care practitioners to provide the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to infants born alive as they would to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. This includes ensuring that the child is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital if not already there. The bill allows specified persons, including those responsible for the fertilization that resulted in the pregnancy, to bring an action against health care practitioners who fail to provide the required standard of care.
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