Repealing Criminal Liability for Abortions

Supreme Soviet of the USSR, On Repealing the Criminal Liability of Pregnant Women for Having Abortions. August 5, 1954

 

Translated by Ward McKee

Original Source: Sbornik zakonov S.S.S.R. i ukazov Prezidiuma Verkhovnovo soveta S.S.R. (1938 g. – noiabr’ 1958 g.). (Moscow, 1959), p. 549.

1. To repeal the criminal liability of pregnant women having abortions as established in Art. 4 of the June 27, 1936 Resolution of TsIK and Sovnarkom; however, criminal liability shall remain for persons performing illegal abortions and those coercing women to have an abortion as established by this resolution.

2. To request Presidiums of the Supreme Soviets of the Union Republics to bring their Criminal Codes in compliance with this decree.

Source: Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Bulletin, No. 15 (1954).

 

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