CODE OF VIRGINIA MURDER OF A PREGNANT WOMAN; PENALTY (ยง 18.2-32.1) The willful and deliberate killing of a pregnant woman without premeditation by one who knows that the woman is pregnant and has the intent to cause the involuntary termination of the woman’s pregnancy without a live birth shall be punished by a term of imprisonment of not less than ten years nor more than forty years. HISTORY: 1997, c. 709.