N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-45: Using drugs or instruments to produce miscarriage or injure pregnant woman.
Where this section sits in the code
- Chapter 14. Criminal Law.
- Subchapter III. Offenses Against the Person.
- Article 11. Abortion and Kindred Offenses.
If any person shall administer to any pregnant woman, or prescribe for any such woman, or advise and procure such woman to take any medicine, drug or anything whatsoever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, or to injure or destroy such woman, or shall use any instrument or application for any of the above purposes, he shall be punished as a Class I felon. (1881, c. 351, s. 2; Code, s. 976; Rev., s. 3619; C.S., s. 4227; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1; c. 179, s. 14.)
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