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Criminal Code Act 1983
170Killing unborn child
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170 Killing unborn child Any person who, when a woman or girl is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or
Criminal Code Act 1983 141 omission of such a nature that, if the child had been born alive and had then died, he would be deemed to have unlawfully killed the child, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life.