Relates to establishing the crime of feticide or the intentional killing of an unborn child at any stage of gestation; makes such crime a class A felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5621
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
feticide
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.24 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 125.24 Feticide.
4 A person is guilty of feticide when with intent to cause the death of
5 an unborn child at any stage of gestation, he or she causes the termi-
6 nation of a woman's pregnancy resulting in the death of such unborn
7 child at any stage of gestation, except when such termination occurs in
8 accordance with section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of the public
9 health law.
10 Feticide is a class A felony.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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