This research paper provides an insight into legal regulation of abortions in the history of the Hungarian Kingdom, the multiethnic state which covered inter alia what is Slovakia today. Attention is drawn to the first Criminal Code (the Law no. V of 1878), adoption of which meant a fundamental change in the development of criminal law on the territory of the Slovaks. Consequently, there is a brief introduction into legal regulation of abortions in the Czechoslovak Republic, whose understanding makes it possible to better evaluate the current approach of the Slovak Republic to abortions. Furthermore, effective legal regulations, the pivotal court decisions and the reactions of the society on the abortion topic are presented.