VERNON'S CIVIL STATUTES
TITLE 71. HEALTH--PUBLIC
CHAPTER 6-1/2. ABORTION
Art. 4512.5. DESTROYING UNBORN CHILD. Whoever shall during
parturition of the mother destroy the vitality or life in a child
in a state of being born and before actual birth, which child
would otherwise have been born alive, shall be confined in the
penitentiary for life or for not less than five years.