Title 10 — Health and Safety
112 chapters · 2,597 sections in this title.
10 GCA § 91A101 Title
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This Chapter may be cited and referred to as “The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2008”.
10 GCA § 91A102 Legislative Findings and Intent
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I Liheslaturan Guåhan finds that a moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited. The passage by the 108th Congress with the Pre…
10 GCA § 91A103 Definitions
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For purposes of this Chapter, the following words and phrases are defined to mean: (a) The term partial-birth abortion means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion: (1) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-…
10 GCA § 91A104 Prohibition
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A person shall not knowingly perform or attempt to perform a partial- birth abortion. Any physician who knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this Title or imprisoned not more than ten (10) years, or both. This Subsection…
10 GCA § 91A105 Partial-Birth Abortions Punished
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Any person performing a partial-birth abortion shall be guilty of a third degree felony.
10 GCA § 91A106 Criminal Penalties
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(a) Any person who intentionally or knowingly violates this Act is guilty of a third degree felony. (b) Any physician who intentionally or knowingly performs a partial- birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined not less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) n…
10 GCA § 91A107 Civil Penalties
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(a) The father, if married to the 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 maternal grandparents of the fetus may in a civil action obtain appropriate re…
10 GCA § 91A108 Review by the Guam Board of Medical Examiners
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(a) A defendant accused of an offense under this Section may seek a hearing before the Guam Board of Medical Examiners as to whether the physician’s conduct was necessary to save the life of the mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical…
10 GCA § 91A109 Prosecutorial Exclusion
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A woman upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed may not be prosecuted under this Section for a conspiracy to violate Section 3 of this bill.
10 GCA § 91A110 Construction
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(a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as creating or recognizing a right to abortion. (b) It is not the intention of this Chapter to make lawful an abortion that is currently unlawful.
10 GCA § 91A111 Penalties for Ambulatory Healthcare Facilities
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(a) An ambulatory healthcare facility licensed pursuant to Chapter 15, Title 18 of the Guam Code Annotated in which the partial-birth abortion is performed in shall be in violation of this Act and shall be subject to immediate revocation of its license(s) by the Guam Board of Med…