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SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) — Lawmakers in Democrat-controlled California advanced a controversial piece of legislation that pro-life groups and attorneys warned could legalize infanticide for weeks or even years after a baby is born.
California’s Assembly Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to approve AB 2223, which was authored by Democrat assemblywoman Buffy Wicks of Oakland.
Wicks wrote in the bill analysis that “AB 2223 protects reproductive freedom by clarifying that the Reproductive Privacy Act prohibits pregnancy criminalization and creates a private right of action for people whose rights have been violated to seek accountability using civil courts.”
“It would also remove outdated provisions requiring coroners to investigate certain pregnancy losses and ensure that information collected about pregnancy loss is not used to target people through criminal or civil legal systems,” Wicks wrote.
The updated language of the law states that a “person shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or penalty, or otherwise deprived of their rights, based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage,
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