Performance of abortion
202MB Performance of abortion
A person performs an abortion on another person if the person does any act with the intention of causing the termination of the pregnancy of the other person.
Without limiting subsection (1), the acts to which it applies include the following —
prescribing an abortion drug for the other person;
supplying an abortion drug to the other person;
administering an abortion drug to the other person;
carrying out a surgical or other procedure on the other person.
However, assisting a person to do an act done with the intention of causing the termination of a pregnancy of another person is not an act to which subsection (1) applies.
[Section 202MB inserted: No. 20 of 2023 s. 8.]
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