§ 18.2-76.1. Encouraging or promoting abortion
If any person, by publication, lecture, advertisement, or by the sale or circulation of any publication, or through the use of a referral agency for profit, or in any other manner, encourage or promote the performing of an abortion or the inducing of a miscarriage in this Commonwealth which is prohibited under this article, he […]
§ 18.2-76.2. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 709, cl. 2.
§ 18.2-74. When abortion or termination of pregnancy lawful after second trimester of pregnancy
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of § 18.2-71 and in addition to the provisions of §§ 18.2-72 and 18.2-73, it shall be lawful for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice medicine and surgery to terminate or attempt to terminate a human pregnancy or aid or assist in the termination of a […]
§ 18.2-74.1. Abortion, etc., when necessary to save life of woman
In the event it is necessary for a licensed physician to terminate a human pregnancy or assist in the termination of a human pregnancy by performing an abortion or causing a miscarriage on any woman in order to save her life, in the opinion of the physician so performing the abortion or causing the miscarriage, […]
§ 18.2-74.2. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 2003, cc. 961 and 963.
§ 18.2-75. Conscience clause
Nothing in §§ 18.2-72, 18.2-73 or § 18.2-74 shall require a hospital or other medical facility or physician to admit any patient under the provisions hereof for the purpose of performing an abortion. In addition, any person who shall state in writing an objection to any abortion or all abortions on personal, ethical, moral or […]
§ 18.2-76. Informed written consent required
Before performing any abortion or inducing any miscarriage or terminating a pregnancy as provided in § 18.2-72, 18.2-73, or 18.2-74, the physician or, if such abortion, induction, or termination is to be performed pursuant to § 18.2-72, either the physician or the nurse practitioner authorized pursuant to clause (ii) of § 18.2-72 to perform such […]
§ 18.2-68. Repealed
Repealed by Acts 1994, c. 59.
§ 18.2-71. Producing abortion or miscarriage, etc.; penalty
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 […]
§ 18.2-71.1. Partial birth infanticide; penalty
A. Any person who knowingly performs partial birth infanticide and thereby kills a human infant is guilty of a Class 4 felony. B. For the purposes of this section, “partial birth infanticide” means any deliberate act that (i) is intended to kill a human infant who has been born alive, but who has not been […]