1. Serious bodily injury shall include illness that leaves no prospect of complete cure, continuous incapacity to perform his official or professional duties, and abortion or death of a woman’s foetus.
2. Serious bodily injury includes interference with mental faculties that has lasted longer than four weeks.
Article 82a
Depriving another, or a child at or shortly after birth, of life shall mean killing a foetus that can reasonably be expected to be capable of remaining alive outside the mother’s body.
This appears to be at 24 weeks. Therefore, abortion is only punishable if the unborn child is killed after having lived for 24 weeks.
Article 296
1. He who gives treatment to a woman, knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect that pregnancy may be terminated thereby, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding four years and six months or a fine of the fourth category.
2.If the offense results in the death of the woman, imprisonment not exceeding six years or a fine of the fourth category shall be imposed.
3.If the offense was committed without the woman’s consent, imprisonment not exceeding 12 years or a fine of the fifth category shall be imposed.
4.If the offense was committed without the woman’s consent and also results in her death, imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years or a fifth category fine shall be imposed.
5.The offense referred to in the first paragraph is not punishable if the treatment was performed by a doctor in a hospital or clinic in which such treatment may be performed under the Termination of Pregnancy Act.
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