Virginia Code
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-76.1 (2026)
Encouraging or promoting abortion
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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, § 18.1-63; 1960, c. 358; 1972, c. 725; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1981–1981 · leading case: Simopoulos v. Commonwealth, 277 S.E.2d 194 (Va. 1981).
Simopoulos v. Commonwealth, 277 S.E.2d 194 (Va. 1981). “§ 18.2-76.1. II. VALIDITY OF THE INDICTMENT Referencing § 18.”
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