Mon Jul 11, 2022 – 5:24 pm EDT
SACRAMENTO (LifeSiteNews) – Republicans in the California legislature posed new questions to backers of a bill that that legal experts warn could effectively legalize infanticide, further highlighting its extremism, though not enough to prevent it from continuing to advance.
AB 2223 says that 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.
Legal experts warn that even with that clarification, danger remains that the language could be interpreted to protect infanticide.
“The new modifying phrase may lessen the length of time during which the infanticide may occur, but it still leaves the newborn infant vulnerable to being killed by the abortionist or their partners in crime,” Thomas More Society special counsel Charles LiMandri previously told LifeSiteNews. “Since we already know that some abortion workers have either surreptitiously killed newborn infants, or left
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