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Swiss Criminal Code

of 21 December 1937 (Status as of 22 November 2022)

Art. 118147

2. Abor­tion

Il­leg­al abor­tion

 

1 Any per­son who ter­min­ates a preg­nancy with the con­sent of the preg­nant wo­man or in­cites or as­sists a preg­nant wo­man to ter­min­ate her preg­nancy without the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 119 be­ing ful­filled shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing five years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

2 Any per­son who ter­min­ates a preg­nancy without the con­sent of the preg­nant wo­man shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence of from one148 to ten years.

3 Any wo­man who has her preg­nancy ter­min­ated or oth­er­wise par­ti­cip­ates in the ter­min­a­tion of her preg­nancy fol­low­ing the end of the twelfth week since her last peri­od and without the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 119 be­ing ful­filled shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

4 Cases fall­ing un­der para­graphs 1 and 3 above are sub­ject to a lim­it­a­tion peri­od of three years.149

147 Amended by No I of the FA of 23 March 2001 (Abor­tion), in force since 1 Oct. 2002 (AS 2002 29892992; BBl 1998 30055376).

148Term in ac­cord­ance with No II 1 para. 4 of the FA of 13 Dec. 2002, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 34593535; BBl 1999 1979). This amend­ment has been taken in­to ac­count throughout the Second Book.

149Amended by No I of the FA of 22 March 2002 (Lim­it­a­tion of the Right to Pro­sec­ute), in force since 1 Oct. 2002 (AS 2002 29862988; BBl 2002 26731649).