2019 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person
§ 18.2-76.1. Encouraging or promoting abortion

Universal Citation: VA Code § 18.2-76.1 (2019)

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, ยง 18.1-63; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 725; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

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