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Legal Terms - child destruction
An act that results in the death of a *viable unborn child during pregnancy or delivery before the kid can exist independently of its mother. The maximum penalty for this offense is life in prison if it was done with the aim to kill the mother and it is established that the act was not done in a way that was intended to save her life. This offence, which falls between *abortion, which is the inducing of a miscarriage, and murder, which is the unlawful death of a living being, is governed by the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (s. 1).
An act that results in the death of a *viable unborn child during pregnancy or delivery before the kid can exist independently of its mother. The maximum penalty for this offense is life in prison if it was done with the aim to kill the mother and it is established that the act was not done in a way that was intended to save her life. This offence, which falls between *abortion, which is the inducing of a miscarriage, and murder, which is the unlawful death of a living being, is governed by the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (s. 1).
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