P.R. Laws tit. 33, § 4739

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§ 4739. Abortion

Any person who allows, indicates, advises, abets or practices an abortion or who makes available, facilitates, administers, prescribes or otherwise has a pregnant woman take any medicine, drug or substance, or who uses any instrument or any other means with the intent to provoke an abortion, and any person who assists in the commission of any of said acts, unless by therapeutic prescription by a physician duly authorized to practice medicine in Puerto Rico, with the intention of preserving the health or life of the mother shall incur a fourth degree felony.

History —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 111, eff. May 1, 2005.