It expands the definition of criminal homicide to include an unborn child at any stage of its development. How can that not be Pro-Life?!!!!!
“(1) (a) [A] Except as provided in Subsections (3) and (4), a person commits criminal homicide if [he] the person intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, with criminal negligence, or acting with a mental state otherwise specified in the statute defining the offense, causes the death of another human being, including an unborn child at any stage of its development.”
It provides clear exemptions that should just be common sense:
(3) A person is not guilty of criminal homicide of an unborn child if the sole reason
for the death of the unborn child is that the person:
(a) refused to consent to:
(i) medical treatment; or
(ii) a cesarean section; or
(b) failed to follow medical advice.
The tragedy is that they have to have the following language, but that is out of their control(for now).
(b) There shall be no cause of action for criminal homicide for the death of an unborn child caused by an abortion, as defined in Section 76-7-301 .
Not really. The bill states: "There shall be no cause of action for criminal homicide for the death of an unborn child caused by an abortion..." Section 76-5-201 (b)
Then it defines abortion as: "the intentional termination or attempted termination of human pregnancy after implantation of a fertilized ovum... through a medical procedure carried out by a physician or through a substance used under the direction of a physician" 76-7-301 Definitions Line 224