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KILLING UNBORN CHILD
113. No
person shall, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevent the
child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that, if
the child had been born alive and had then died, he would be deemed to have
unlawfully killed a child.
Penalty: Imprisonment for life.
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ABORTION
117.
(1) No woman shall intentionally procure her own miscarriage.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) No person shall intentionally procure the
miscarriage of a woman.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
(3) It shall be a defence
to any charge under subsections (1) and (2) if the person charged shall show
that the miscarriage procured constituted a termination of pregnancy for good
medical reasons.
(4) No prosecution shall be commenced under
subsection (1) or (2) without the consent in writing of the Public Prosecutor.