Article 426: A woman who procures or attempts to procure an abortion for herself, or who consents to the use of means indicated or administered to her for this purpose, shall be punished by imprisonment for six months to two years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs. Persons exercising the medical profession or a profession related to public health who indicate, promote or implement themselves the means of procuring abortion shall be punished by the penalties provided for in paragraphs 2 and 3 of the preceding article. Any conviction pronounced by application of article 425 and of the present article entails automatically the prohibition to exercise any function and to fill any job vacancy, in any capacity whatsoever, in maternity clinics or centers and all private establishments usually receiving, upon payment or free of charge, and whatever is the number, women in a real, apparent or presumed state of pregnancy. In the event of a conviction handed down by a foreign court and having become res judicata for an offence constituting, according to Ivorian law, one of the offences specified in the present section, the criminal court of the convicted person’s domicile shall, at the request of the public prosecutor’s office, pronounce the prohibition referred to in the preceding paragraph, with the person concerned having been duly summoned to appear in pre-trial chambers. Article 427: There shall be no offence when: 1° the interruption of the pregnancy is necessary to safeguard the life of the mother in grave danger; 2° the physician provides an abortion to a victim of rape at her request. In these cases, the attending physician or surgeon shall take the opinion of two consulting physicians, who, after examination, certify that the life of the mother can only be saved by means of such surgical or therapeutic intervention or that such was the will of the rape victim, duly recorded in writing. If there are two attending physicians at the place of the operation, the physician providing abortion shall only be obliged to take the advice of his colleague. If the attending physician is the only one residing at the place of the operation, he/she certifies on his/her honor that the life of the mother could only be saved by the surgical or therapeutic intervention performed or that this was the wish of the rape victim. In any event, one copy of the medical consultation shall be given to the mother, and the other shall be kept by the attending physician (s). Article 428: Shall be punished by imprisonment for six months to three years and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs any person, who causes the offence of abortion, even if this cause is not followed by action: