Section 12N: Abortion; pregnancy existing for 24 weeks or more
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Section 12N. If a pregnancy has existed for 24 weeks or more, no abortion may be performed except by a physician, and only if in the best medical judgement of the physician it is:
(i)necessary to preserve the life of the patient;
(ii)necessary to preserve the patient's physical or mental health;
(iii)warranted because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or
(iv)warranted because of a grave fetal diagnosis that indicates that the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside of the uterus without extraordinary medical interventions.