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SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) – A California abortion bill still raises infanticide concerns after being amended, according to two legal analysts who warned about the consequences of the legislation.
The California Assembly Judiciary Committee passed an amended bill on April 6 that says no woman can be punished “based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause.”
A previous version ended at “perinatal death,” which could be interpreted to protect infanticide, since perinatal could mean any time between one week to two full years of age.
“In my view, this revision lessens, but does not eliminate, the concerns regarding infanticide,” Thomas More Society Special Counsel Charles LiMandri, a partner at LiMandri and Jonna LLP, told LifeSiteNews on Tuesday. “This is because the broad phrase ‘perinatal death’ is still in the Bill, and the new modifying phrase ‘due to a pregnancy-related cause,’ is sufficiently ambiguous.”
“This leaves it open to interpretation and exploitation by abortionists or others intent on ending a
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