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HB 1548 Crimes; partial-birth infanticide abortion; penalty.

Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Crimes; partial-birth infanticide abortion; penalty. Makes the performing of a partial-birth infanticide abortion a Class 4 felony. Defines "partial-birth infanticide" as deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivering a living infant until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the infant's entire head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the infant's trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living infant, and then performing the overt act. The bill also redefines "live birth," to include either complete or partial expulsion of the product of human conception, and states that "complete or partial expulsion or extraction" occurs when at least either the infant's entire head is outside the body of the mother or, in the case of a breech delivery, when any part of the infant's trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother.


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