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(CALIFORNIA GLOBE) – Assembly Bill 2223 by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), misleadingly labeled “Reproductive health,” actually legalizes infanticide in an abortion bill to expand the killing of babies past the moment of birth up to weeks after, according to opponents of the bill. Wicks says “women should not be prosecuted for a pregnancy loss.”
Opponents point to the vague language and new phraseology of abortion terms: “Although definitions of ‘perinatal death’ vary, all of them include the demise of newborns seven days or more after birth,” the California Family Council said.
Assemblywoman Wicks insisted in a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee Tuesday that AB 2223 does not support infanticide, and has only been labeled such because of the spread of misinformation by those who oppose the bill. Wicks said while other states are adopting increasingly aggressive measures to limit abortions, California continues to protect reproductive rights.
Two attorneys from “reproductive justice” law firms representing the two women who were prosecuted spoke in support of AB 2223 and explained the criminal prosecutions. One of the women was charged with 1st Degree murder for the “still birth” of her infant, because the mother was addicted to and using meth while pregnant. But the attorney claimed “meth addiction cannot cause still birth.”
The second attorney took the creative language even further stating that women should not be criminally prosecuted for a still birth or pregnancy loss, or for “self-managing an abortion.”
The attorneys clearly conflated a miscarriage and still-birth in non-addicted pregnant women with pregnant addicted drug users.
