Law on Abortion: Zambia—Offenses Connected with Murder

215. Attempt to murder

(a) Any person who attempts unlawfully to cause the death of another; or

(b) with intent unlawfully to cause the death of another does any act, or omits to do any act which is his duty to do, such act or omission being of such a nature as to be likely to endanger human life; is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.

216. Attempt to murder by convict

Any person who, being under sentence of imprisonment for three years or more, attempts to commit murder, is liable to imprisonment for life. (As amended by No. 26 of 1933)

217. Accessory after the fact to murder

Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to murder is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

218. Written threat to murder

Any person who, knowing the contents thereof, directly or indirectly causes any person to receive any writing threatening to kill any person, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

219. Conspiracy to murder

Any person who conspires with any other person to kill any person, whether such person is in Zambia or elsewhere, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

220. Concealing the birth of children

Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavors, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child, to conceal the birth, whether the child died before, at, or after its birth, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

221. Child destruction

(1) Subject as hereinafter in this subsection provided, any person who, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by any willful act causes a child to die before it has an existence independent of its mother, is guilty of felony, to wit, of child destruction, and is liable on conviction thereof to imprisonment for life:

Provided that no person shall be found guilty of an offence under this section unless it is proved that the act which caused the death of the child was not done in good faith for the purpose only of preserving the life of the mother.

(2) For the purposes of this section, evidence that a woman had at any material time been pregnant for a period of twenty-eight weeks or more shall be prima facie proof that she was at that time pregnant of a child capable of being born alive. (No. 28 o/ 1931)