Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL
Part I - General Administration
Subpart 1 - General
Chapter 4 - Medically Futile Pregnancies
Section I-401 - Conditions that Shall Deem an Unborn Child "Medically Futile"
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code I-401
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Pursuant to Act 545 of the 2022 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature, the Department of Health establishes the following exclusive list of anomalies, diseases, disorders, and other conditions that shall deem an unborn child "medically futile" for purposes of R.S. Title 14, Chapter 1, Part V, Subpart A:
1. achondrogenesis;
2. acrania;
3. anencephaly;
4. arcadia;
5. body stalk anomaly;
6. campomelic dysplasia;
7. craniorachischisis;
8. dysencephalia splanchnocystica
(Meckel-Gruber syndrome);
9.
ectopia cordis;
10.
exencephaly;
11. gestational
trophoblastic neoplasia;
12.
holoprosencephaly;
13. hydrops
fetalis;
14.
iniencephaly;
15. perinatal
hypophosphatasia;
16. osteogenesis
imperfecta (type 2);
17. renal
agenesis (bilateral);
18. short rib
polydactyly syndrome;
19.
sirenomelia;
20. thanatophoric
dysplasia;
21. triploidy;
22. trisomy 13;
23. trisomy 16 (full);
24. trisomy 18;
25. trisomy 22; and
26. a profound and irremediable congenital or
chromosomal anomaly existing in the unborn child that is incompatible with
sustaining life after birth in reasonable medical judgment as certified by two
physicians that are licensed to practice in the state of Louisiana.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 14:87.1
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