Rhode Island H7196 criminalizes the intentional failure of medical professionals to provide reasonable care to infants born alive.
Rhode Island H7196 amends the General Laws to add a new section criminalizing the knowing and intentional failure of a physician, nurse, or other licensed medical person to provide reasonable medical care and treatment to an infant born alive. This failure is classified as a felony. If the infant dies as a result of this failure, the medical person would be guilty of manslaughter. The act takes effect upon passage.
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