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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56913</law_id><section_number>18.2-71</section_number><catch_line>Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>16.1-241</reference><reference>18.2-72</reference><reference>18.2-73</reference><reference>18.2-74</reference><reference>18.2-74.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Crimes Against the Person</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="9">Abortion</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as provided in other sections of this article, if any person administer to, or cause to be taken by a woman, any drug or other thing, or use means, with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage, and thereby destroy such child, or produce such abortion or miscarriage, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-62; 1960, c. 358; 1970, c. 508; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
