• AB 2223 removes all civil and criminal liability for any pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, or perinatal death.
• The bill’s official analysis states that the “the bill could be interpreted to immunize a pregnant person from all criminal penalties for all pregnancy outcomes, including the death of a newborn for any reason during the “perinatal” period after birth.”
• According to the official analysis, the “perinatal” period is either “generally used to describe the period from approximately past 22 (or 28) completed weeks of pregnancy up to 7 completed days of life,” or “the period from the establishment of pregnancy to one month following delivery.”
• The bill establishes a blanket prohibition on civil or criminal liability for anyone aiding or assisting a woman seeking to end the life of her child with the consent of the child’s mother, regardless of the outcome – i.e., even if the baby is born alive and then killed up to one month after birth.
• The bill removes existing requirement for a coroner inquiry into the death of a baby following a self-induced or criminal abortion. It removes the requirement that every unattended death of a baby delivered after 20 weeks’ gestation be handled as a “death without medical attendance.”
• The bill prohibits using coroner’s statements on the baby’s death certificate death for the purpose of criminal prosecution or civil damages.
• The bill creates a right to “self-managed abortion” at any stage of pregnancy. Self-managed abortion is defined as “ending one’s own pregnancy outside of the medical system.

“AB 2223 is not only a pro-abortion bill – it removes all civil and criminal penalties for killing newborn babies under any circumstances. The bill expressly authorizes any person to facilitate late-term abortions and even infanticide without legal repercussions.”

Life Legal CEO Alexandra Snyder