Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Any phys­i­cian who ter­min­ates a preg­nancy in terms of Art­icle 119 para­graph 2 and who fails, pri­or to the pro­ced­ure:

a.

to ob­tain a writ­ten re­quest from the preg­nant wo­man;

b.

to dis­cuss the ter­min­a­tion in de­tail with the preg­nant wo­man and to coun­sel her, to ad­vise her of the risks of the pro­ced­ure to her health, and to provide her with a writ­ten guide, the re­ceipt of which she must ac­know­ledge with her sig­na­ture, that con­tains:

1.

a list of agen­cies that provide coun­selling free of charge,

2.

a list of as­so­ci­ations and agen­cies that of­fer mor­al and ma­ter­i­al sup­port, and

3.

in­form­a­tion on the pos­sib­il­ity of hav­ing the child ad­op­ted;

c.

to sat­is­fy him­self that a preg­nant wo­man un­der 16 years of age has been in con­tact with a coun­selling agency spe­cial­ised in deal­ing with young people.

shall be li­able to a fine¹⁷⁰.

² Any phys­i­cian who fails to re­port the ter­min­a­tion of a preg­nancy to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 119 para­graph 5 shall be li­able to the same pen­alty.