Intent to prevent live birth criminalises acts causing non viability or death, subject to a good faith medical exception. The provision establishes criminal liability for any deliberate act intended to prevent a child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth when the act achieves that result; it requires intent and causation, and excludes acts done in good faith to save the mother's life, with punishment by imprisonment, fine, or both.
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Intent to prevent live birth criminalises acts causing non viability or death, subject to a good faith medical exception.
The provision establishes criminal liability for any deliberate act intended to prevent a child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth when the act achieves that result; it requires intent and causation, and excludes acts done in good faith to save the mother's life, with punishment by imprisonment, fine, or both.
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