Abortion only by licensed physician
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Mazurek v. Armstrong (1997)
Most recently applied in Hopkins v. Jegley (July 2017)
Acts 1983, No. 715, §§ 1, 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2561; Acts 1999, No. 1273, § 4; 2017, No. 383, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to induce another person to have an abortion or to knowingly terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant with the purpose to cause fetal death unless the person is a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of Arkansas.
(2) A violation of subsection (a) of this section is a Class D felony.
(3) This section does not allow the charging or conviction of a woman with any criminal offense in the death of her own unborn child in utero.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.