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HB 2403 Homicide of a fetus.

Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Feticide. Provides that it is homicide if any person knowingly or recklessly causes the death of a fetus, at any stage of its development, by a physical injury to the mother that would be sufficient to convict such person of homicide if the mother had died, provided that (i) the act or acts resulting in the death of the fetus were not a lawful abortion or an abortion to which the pregnant woman consented, and (ii) the person who committed the act or acts resulting in the death of the fetus was not the pregnant woman whose fetus was killed.


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