Posted on 03/09/2022 5:47:19 AM PST by Red Badger
Senate Bill 669 could be interpreted to allow for abortions through the first month after the baby is born, a legal analyst says. Featured Image
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (LifeSiteNews) – Legislation proposed in the Maryland Senate would allow babies to be left to die for as long as the first 28 days after birth, according to analysis from a pro-life attorney.
Senate Bill 669 is also known as the Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022, but the problems go beyond the use of “person” in place of accurate references to women having babies. Senator William Smith, a Democrat, sponsored the legislation, which will have a hearing on March 15.
“[T]he bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion,” American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) attorney Olivia Summers wrote in her analysis.
This is because the legislation prohibits investigations and criminal prosecutions for women and medical professionals for a “failure to act” in relation to a “perinatal death.”
“In other words, a baby born alive and well could be abandoned and left to starve or freeze to death,” Summers wrote, “and nothing could be done to punish those who participated in that cruel death.”
She said that the language used is unclear, so the law could be interpreted to “prevent investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth, and may extend to infants as old as four weeks!”
The Maryland Code does not define “perinatal,” Summers said. A 2020 law does define “perinatal care” as the “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods.”
A definition on MedicineNet, a website owned by WebMD, defines it as “the 20th to 28th week of gestation” to “1 to 4 weeks after birth.”
Summers, with the ACLJ, noted in her analysis that the state already has a safe haven law that allows parents to leave a newborn baby with a responsible adult without fear of prosecution.
“Under the Safe Haven law, a distressed parent who is unable or unwilling to care for their infant can safely give up custody of their baby, no questions asked,” the Maryland Department of Human Services explains. “Newborns can be left at hospitals or law enforcement stations.”
“There is absolutely no reason for Maryland Senate Bill 669’s attempt to prevent someone who lets their baby die from being investigated,” Summers said. ”This bill just further exposes the complete lack of regard abortion advocates have for innocent human life.”
“If they truly want to protect life and women, then legislators could simply extend the length of the safe harbor provision already in place,” she said.
Senator Smith, the bill’s sponsor, did not provide a comment on the ACLJ’s analysis of the legislation. The office responded to the initial email but did not comment any further.
Typical for the insane asylum they call the Maryland General Assembly
It isn't "Why 28 and not 14 or 1?"
It is "Why 28, and not 365, or 3,650, or 21,900 days??
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That’s what the COVID vax is for.
Organs.
‘9’ is an inverted ‘6’, so they tried.“
Oh my, you are right! This just can’t be a coincidence, it is pure evil.
Camel nose, meet tent.
That made me laugh, even though it shouldn’t have.
This will be Hogan’s 2020 presidential campaign charge.
Well, I do have this list...
Things like:
Ad nauseam.
They just want to go back to the pagan ways... if you don’t want a baby, leave it under a tree for the wolves.
Rats compete for new things to be outraged about and new ways to push their radicalngodlessness. I see he’s black: infuse he thinks we don’t slaughter enough black babies in the womb, so we need to move on to the post-born
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.
Their judgment day is coming.
Senate bill # 669. Missed it by 3 digits.
sweet! babies now have a return policy
/sarc
seriously, how can anyone see these people as anything other than evil?
i’m not particularly religious but ‘evil’ is the appropriate term here. insane.
The basic premise is that mothers are authorized to murder their baby daughters and sons.
As long as that holds, for any period from the babies’ conception forward, mothers will continue to murder their baby daughters and sons.
Yep. But often, such as in this case, the camel nose itself is beyond offensive.
How many republicans are in Maryland?
This law is about democrats killing their infant children.
To go futher, this law is about black democrats killing their children.
Leviticus 20:2-5
“Say to the Israelites: ‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.’”
Jeremiah 32:35, English Standard Version
35 They built the high places of Baal qin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, rto offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, sthough I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do pthis abomination, tto cause Judah to sin.
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