Note 53 — ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE.

The act provides that if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously administer to, or cause to be administered to or taken by any woman any medicines, drug or other substance or thing whatsoever, or shall use or employ or cause or procure to be used or employed, any instrument or other means whatsoever with intent thereby to cause or procure the miscarriage of any woman not being or not being proved to be quick with child at the time of administering such things, or using such means, that then and in every such case, the person or persons so offending, their counsellors, aiders, and abettors, knowing of and privy to such offence, shall be and are hereby declared to be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to be fined, imprisoned, set in and upon the pillory, publicly or privately whipped, or to suffer one or more of the said punishments, or to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years, at the discretion of the court before which such offender shall be tried and convicted.