NRS201.120. Abortion: Definition; penalty.  


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  •   A person who:

          1.  Prescribes, supplies or administers to a woman, whether pregnant or not, or advises or causes her to take any medicine, drug or substance; or

          2.  Uses or causes to be used, any instrument or other means,

    Ê to terminate a pregnancy, unless done pursuant to the provisions of NRS 442.250, or by a woman upon herself upon the advice of a physician acting pursuant to the provisions of NRS 442.250, is guilty of abortion which is a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 10 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000.

      [1911 C&P § 182, RL § 6447; NCL § 10129]—(NRS A 1967, 475; 1973, 1639; 1979, 1428; 1995, 1197)