§ 63-1-738.10. Publication of materials on twenty-week gestation - Legibility - Availability at no cost.

A.  Within ninety (90) days after the Unborn Child Pain Awareness/Prevention Act becomes law, the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision shall cause to be published, in English and in each language which is the primary language of two percent (2%) or more of the population of the state, and shall cause to be available on the state web site provided for in Section 11 of this act, printed materials with the following statement concerning unborn children of twenty (20) weeks gestational age: “By twenty (20) weeks gestation, the unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain.  There is evidence that by twenty (20) weeks gestation unborn children seek to evade certain stimuli in a manner which in an infant or an adult would be interpreted to be a response to pain.  Anesthesia is routinely administered to unborn children who are twenty (20) weeks gestational age or older who undergo prenatal surgery.”

The materials shall be objective, nonjudgmental and designed to convey only accurate scientific information about the human fetus at the various gestational ages.

B.  The materials referred to in subsection A of this section shall be printed in a typeface large enough to be clearly legible.  The web site provided for in Section 11 of this act shall be maintained at a minimum resolution of 70 DPI (dots per inch).  All pictures appearing on this web site shall be a minimum of 200x300 pixels.  All letters on the web site shall be a minimum of 11 point font.  All information and pictures shall be accessible with an industry standard browser requiring no additional plug-ins.

C.  The materials required under this section shall be available at no cost from the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision upon request and in appropriate number to any person, facility, or hospital.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 185, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2006.