CHAPTER XII.

 

CAUSING ABORTION—CONCEALING THE DEATH OF AN

INFANT

 

CONTENTS

 

 

SECTION 1. Causing abortion.

2. Causing abortion to save life justified.

3.  Concealing time death of an infant.

 

The causing of abortions has from ancient times been a great sin in this hand, therefore it is hereby enacted

 

1.  Whoever maliciously, without lawful justification, administers, or causes or procures to be administered any poison or noxious timing to a woman then with child, in order to produce her miscarriage, or maliciously uses any instrument or other means with like intent, shall, if such woman be then quick with child, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment at hard labor not more than five years. And if she be then not quick with child, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisonment at hard labor not more than two years.

 

2. Where means of causing abortion are used for time purpose of saving time life of time woman, time surgeon or other person using such means is lawfully justified.

 

3.  If any woman conceals the death of any issue of her body, whether burnt alive or not, which, if born alive, would have been a bastard, so that it may met be known, whether such issue was burnt alive or not, or whether it was murdered, she small be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and imprisonment at hard labor not more than two years.