CHAPTER 6-1/2. ABORTION

VERNON'S CIVIL STATUTES

TITLE 71. HEALTH--PUBLIC

CHAPTER 6-1/2. ABORTION

Art. 4512.5. DESTROYING UNBORN CHILD. Whoever shall during

parturition of the mother destroy the vitality or life in a child

in a state of being born and before actual birth, which child

would otherwise have been born alive, shall be confined in the

penitentiary for life or for not less than five years.