                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN ABORTION LAWFUL DURING FIRST TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY (§ 18.2-72)

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of § 18.2-71, it shall be lawful for (i)
any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery
or (ii) any person jointly licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing as an
advanced practice registered nurse and acting within such person&#8217;s scope
of practice to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy or aid or
assist in the termination of a human pregnancy by performing an abortion or
causing a miscarriage on any woman during the first trimester of pregnancy.

HISTORY: 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2020, cc. 898, 899; 2023, c. 183.