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§ 709-4a

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709.4A Sexual abuse in the fourth degree — health care professionals. 1. A health care professional commits sexual abuse in the fourth degree when the health care professional uses or provides a patient with human reproductive material for assistedreproduction other than that to which the patient expressly consented in writing in violationof section 714I.3, subsection 2. 2. Sexual abuse in the fourth degree is an aggravated misdemeanor.3. a. Notwithstanding subsection 2, sexual abuse in the fourth degree is a class 'D' felony if the health care professional uses or provides the health care professional’s own humanreproductive material for assisted reproduction in violation of section 714I.3, subsection 2. b. A parent-child relationship between a child and a health care professional is not created for any legal purpose when the child is born as the result of being conceived throughcommission of sexual abuse in the fourth degree as described in this subsection. 4. For the purposes of this section, 'assisted reproduction', 'gamete', 'health care professional', 'human reproductive material', and 'patient' mean the same as defined insection 714I.2.

subsection. 4. For the purposes of this section, 'assisted reproduction', 'gamete', 'health care professional', 'human reproductive material', and 'patient' mean the same as defined insection 714I.2. 2022 Acts, ch 1123, §7Referred to in §147.55, 692A.102 Sat Dec 23 12:28:26 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 709.4A (1, 0)