The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office has developed the following reporting instrument with respect to the collection of forensic samples pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 97-5-51. This form is to be used in conjunction with the collection of fetal tissue when a pregnancy termination is performed on a minor who is less than fourteen (14) years of age at the time of the pregnancy termination procedure or with the collection of cord blood when a minor who is under the age of sixteen (16) gives birth to an infant and if it would be reasonable to assume that the minor's pregnancy resulted from a sex crime against a minor.
31 Miss. Code. R. 504-1.2