Superseded Effective July 1, 1998.

Title 21. Crimes and Punishments.

Chapter 32
§861. Procuring an Abortion

Every person who administers to any woman, or who prescribes for any woman, or advises or procures any woman to take any medicine, drug or substance, or uses or employs any instrument, or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two (2) nor more than five (5) years.

R.L. 1910, § 2436; Laws 1961, p. 230, § 1.