Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020) |
TITLE 18.2. Crimes and Offenses Generally |
CHAPTER 4. Crimes Against the Person |
ARTICLE 9. Abortion |
SECTION 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 shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor. Code 1950, § 18.1-63; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 725; 1975, cc. 14, 15. |