                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRODUCING ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE, ETC.; PENALTY (§ 18.2-71)

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
intent 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 felony.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-62; 1960, c. 358; 1970, c. 508; 1975, cc. 14, 15.