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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-61-102

Unlawful abortion

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Bynum v. State (2018)

Most recently applied in Bynum v. State (March 2018)

Acts 1969, No. 61, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2553; Acts 1999, No. 1273, § 5; 2005, No. 1994, § 428.

(1) It is unlawful for any person to administer or prescribe any medicine or drug to any woman with child with the intent to produce an abortion or premature delivery of any fetus before or after the period of quickening or to produce or attempt to produce the abortion by any other means.

(2) Any person violating a provision of this section is guilty of a Class D felony.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to 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.