18 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 32 - Abortion

• Chapter Notes
• Section 3201 - Short Title Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Abortion Control Act."
• Section 3202 - Legislative Intent
  (a) Rights and interests.--It is the intention of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to protect hereby the life and health of...
• Section 3203 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in...
• Section 3204 - Medical Consultation And Judgment
  (a) Abortion prohibited; exceptions.--No abortion shall be performed except by a physician after either: (1) he determines that, in his best clinical judgment, the...
• Section 3205 - Informed Consent
  (a) General rule.--No abortion shall be performed or induced except with the voluntary and informed consent of the woman upon whom the abortion is...
• Section 3206 - Parental Consent
  (a) General rule.--Except in the case of a medical emergency, or except as provided in this section, if a pregnant woman is less than...
• Section 3207 - Abortion Facilities
  (a) Regulations.--The department shall have power to make rules and regulations pursuant to this chapter, with respect to performance of abortions and with respect...
• Section 3208 - Printed Information
  (a) General rule.--The department shall cause to be published in English, Spanish and Vietnamese, within 60 days after this chapter becomes law, and shall...
• Section 3208.1 - Commonwealth Interference Prohibited
  The Commonwealth shall not interfere with the use of medically appropriate methods of contraception or the manner in which medically appropriate methods of contraception...
• Section 3209 - Spousal Notice
  (a) Spousal notice required.--In order to further the Commonwealth's interest in promoting the integrity of the marital relationship and to protect a spouse's interests...
• Section 3210 - Determination Of Gestational Age
  (a) Requirement.--Except in the case of a medical emergency which prevents compliance with this section, no abortion shall be performed or induced unless the...
• Section 3211 - Abortion On Unborn Child Of 24 Or More Weeks Gestational Age
  § 3211. Abortion on unborn child of 24 or more weeks gestational age. (a) Prohibition.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no person shall perform...
• Section 3212 - Infanticide
  (a) Status of fetus.--The law of this Commonwealth shall not be construed to imply that any human being born alive in the course of...
• Section 3213 - Prohibited Acts
  (a) Payment for abortion.--Except in the case of a pregnancy which is not yet clinically diagnosable, any person who intends to perform or induce...
• Section 3214 - Reporting
  (a) General rule.--For the purpose of promotion of maternal health and life by adding to the sum of medical and public health knowledge through...
• Section 3215 - Publicly Owned Facilities; Public Officials And Public Funds
  (a) Limitations.--No hospital, clinic or other health facility owned or operated by the Commonwealth, a county, a city or other governmental entity (except the...
• Section 3216 - Fetal Experimentation
  (a) Unborn or live child.--Any person who knowingly performs any type of nontherapeutic experimentation or nontherapeutic medical procedure (except an abortion as defined in...
• Section 3217 - Civil Penalties
  Any physician who knowingly violates any of the provisions of section 3204 (relating to medical consultation and judgment) or 3205 (relating to informed consent)...
• Section 3218 - Criminal Penalties
  (a) Application of chapter.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no criminal penalty shall apply to a woman who violates any provision of this...
• Section 3219 - State Board Of Medicine; State Board Of Osteopathic Medicine
  (a) Enforcement.--It shall be the duty of the State Board of Medicine and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to vigorously enforce those provisions...
• Section 3220 - Construction
  (a) Referral to coroner.--The provisions of section 503(3) of the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), known as the "Vital Statistics Law of...

Last modified: October 8, 2016