SAINT VINCENT AND THE
Section 149. (1) Any person who, with intent to
procure
a miscarriage of a woman, whether she is with child or not, unlawfully
administers
to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses
any
force of any kind, or uses any other means whatsoever, is guilty of an
offence
and liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(2) A person shall
not be guilty
of an offence under subsection (1) when a pregnancy is terminated in a
hospital
or other establishment approved for that purpose by the Senior Medical
Officer,
by a medical practitioner, if two medical practitioners are of the
opinion,
formed in good faith--
(a) that the continuation of the pregnancy would
involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman, or injury to her
physical or mental health or of any existing children of her family,
greater than if the pregnancy were terminated; or
(b) that there is substantial risk that, if the
child
were born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormality as
to
be seriously handicapped;
Provided that the reference to the opinion of two
medical practitioners and to an approved hospital or other
establishment shall not apply to the termination of a pregnancy by a
registered medical practitioner
in a case in which he is of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the
termination
is immediately necessary to save the life of, or to prevent grave
permanent
injury to the physical or mental health of, the pregnant woman.
(3) In determining for the purpose of subsection
(2)
whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such risk of
injury
to health as is mentioned in paragraph (a) account may be taken of the
pregnant
woman’s actual or reasonably foreseeable environment.
(4) A person shall not be guilty of an offence
under subsection (1) when a pregnancy is terminated in a hospital or
other establishment
approved for that purpose by the Senior Medical Officer, if the
pregnancy
has resulted from an act of rape or incest as defined in Section 241,
whether
or not any person has been charged with the offence of rape or incest
which
resulted in the pregnancy in question.
Section 150. Any
woman who, being
with child, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully
administers
to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any
kind,
or uses any means whatsoever, or permits any such thing or means to be
administered
to her or used on her, is guilty of an offence and liable to
imprisonment
for seven years.
Section 151. Any
person who unlawfully
supplies to, or procures for, any person any poison or other noxious
thing,
or uses any force of any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that
the
same is to be unlawfully used or employed with intent to procure the
miscarriage
of any woman, whether or not she be with child, is guilty of an offence
and
liable to imprisonment for five years.