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2022 Colorado Code
Title 18 - Criminal Code
Article 3.5 - Offenses Against Pregnant Women
§ 18-3.5-104. Unlawful Termination of Pregnancy in the Second Degree
Universal Citation: CO Code § 18-3.5-104 (2022)
- A person commits the offense of unlawful termination of pregnancy in the second degree if the person knowingly causes the unlawful termination of the pregnancy of a woman.
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- Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (2), unlawful termination of pregnancy in the second degree is a class 4 felony.
- If unlawful termination of pregnancy in the second degree is committed under circumstances where the act causing the unlawful termination of pregnancy is performed upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by a serious and highly provoking act of the intended victim, affecting the person causing the unlawful termination of pregnancy sufficiently to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, and without an interval between the provocation and the unlawful termination of pregnancy sufficient for the voice of reason and humanity to be heard, it is a class 5 felony.
- A defendant convicted pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be sentenced by the court in accordance with the provisions of section 18-1.3-406.
Source: L. 2013: Entire article R&RE, (HB 13-1154), ch. 372, p. 2187, § 2, effective July 1.
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