Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe)
California’s Newly Amended ‘Infanticide’ Bill Headed to Senate
Law enforcement will be barred from investigating an infant death under AB 2223
By Katy Grimes, June 13, 2022 7:34 am
Assembly Bill 2223 by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), is an abortion bill misleadingly labeled “Reproductive health,” which actually seeks/sought to legalize infanticide to expand the killing of infants past the moment of birth up to weeks after, the Globe reported.
Assemblywoman Wicks insisted in a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee in April 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.Wicks says “women should not be prosecuted for a pregnancy loss.”
This bill plays right into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s and Democrats’ plan to promote abortion tourism, inviting tourists to visit California and get an abortion if their own state has abortion restrictions.
Gov. Newsom and the State Legislature are offering taxpayer funds to help out-of-state residents obtain abortions, as well as legalizing infanticide through recently amended legislation. So they need to make sure nothing gets in the way of abortions for all, at any time during the pregnancy.
“Infanticide” is defined as:
- The act of killing an infant.
- The practice of killing newborn infants.
- One who kills an infant.
AB 2223 Amended
AB 2223, passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee in May after approval of an amendment that mostly removed the verbiage decriminalizing infanticide, the California Family Council reported. “Legislators made the change after thousands of pro-life advocates came to Sacramento on April 19 to oppose the bill.”
“The amendment confirmed the concerns California Family Council raised regarding the section that decriminalized ‘perinatal death.’ The change came despite multiple media outlets offering “fact checks” attempting to dismiss California Family Council’s warnings that AB 2223 would decriminalize killing newborns up to 30 days after birth.”
Is AB 2223 still a threat to unborn and newly born infants?
The amendment changes the bill to read, “perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero.”
Pregnancy loss” is how Wicks and proponents describe a fetal or infant death, even if the mother caused the death through “self-managing an abortion,” and even after the baby is born alive.
Assembly Bill 2223 passed the Assembly and is now headed to the Senate.
AB 2223 seeks to change Penal Code section 187, which defines murder as “the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.” Reference to “a fetus” was added in 1970 when the California Legislature amended section 187. Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an alert in January stating he “reiterates that the Legislature did not intend to include a pregnant person’s own actions that might result in a miscarriage or stillbirth.”
Despite his interpretation and proclamation, the Attorney General can’t change the Penal Code without passage of Assemblywoman Wicks’ AB 2223.
Even more concerning, according to AB 2223, law enforcement will be barred from investigating an infant death. Bill analysis says, “The bill also limits the duties of coroners to be consistent with laws that protect pregnant persons from civil liability and criminal prosecution for the death of their unborn fetus.
“So if a coroner investigates the alleged ‘stillborn’ baby’s body and discovers the baby was not still-born, but born breathing and died of asphyxiation, that evidence couldn’t be used to prosecute anyone for infanticide,” the California Family Council explains.
How exactly will law enforcement determine if the death was due to causes in utero or after, without an investigation? Answer: They can’t. “The bill still decriminalizes back-alley abortions by removing punishment for anyone violating any abortion health and safety standards for any reason when performing an abortion on a woman through all nine months of pregnancy, right up to the moment of birth,” the California Family Council said.
Another complication is the language used in the bill.
Americans United for Life writes that, “‘Perinatal’ is not defined in this bill, causing critics to decry AB 2223 as infanticide. Elsewhere in California law, “perinatal care” is defined as “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods. . . . Absent a definition in the bill, it certainly appears that the intent of this legislation is to legalize child abandonment (or worse) in the first weeks after birth. If this is not the bill sponsors’ intent, they should amend the bill to clarify that the official policy of California is not state-sanctioned infanticide.
According to the bill’s author, Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, the bill is about “reproductive justice, pregnancy criminalization, reproductive freedom, and pregnancy loss:
A critical part of realizing reproductive justice for people in California is clarifying that nobody will be investigated, prosecuted, or incarcerated for their actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcomes.
Pregnancy criminalization is a widespread, national problem, and California is not exempt from this issue. Despite clear law that ending or losing pregnancy is not a crime, prosecutors in this state have charged people for homicide offenses for pregnancy loss.
AB 2223 protects reproductive freedom and decisionmaking by ensuring that no one in the State of California will be prosecuted for ending a pregnancy or experiencing a pregnancy loss. As other states that are hostile to abortion rights are attempting to impose criminal or civil penalties on people who assist others in obtaining an abortion, California must reinforce existing state protections against the criminalization and prosecution of abortion and pregnancy outcomes.
California Family Council sums up the bill and amendment best:
“Even with the new amendment narrowing the meaning of ‘perinatal death,’ AB 2223 will still prohibit prosecution of a mother or someone assisting her for causing the death of her born or unborn child if the child died because of injuries sustained while in the womb. That would include injuries caused by a botched abortion, illegal drugs such as meth or heroin, or even a beating by a boyfriend, if the woman refuses to press charges.”
Here is how members of the Assembly voted on AB 2223:
Yes on AB 2223 – Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Bennett, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Mia Bonta, Bryan, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Cooper, Mike Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Haney, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Lee, Levine, Low, Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Santiago, Stone, Ting, Ward, Akilah Weber, Wicks, Wilson, Wood, Rendon.
No on AB 2223 – Bigelow, Chen, Choi, Cooley, Cunningham, Megan Dahle, Davies, Flora, Fong, Gallagher, Kiley, Lackey, Mathis, Mayes, Nguyen, Patterson, Seyarto, Smith, Valladares, Voepel, Waldron.
The Globe will follow AB 2223 through the Senate and report back.
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[Asm Buffy] “Wicks says ‘women should not be prosecuted for a pregnancy loss.'”
Wait a minute, Buffy, that is not exactly a truthful and transparent statement, is it?
Sorta sounds to me like what she is saying is that the drunk driver who ends up killing someone should not be blamed or convicted —- or even investigated —-because, after all, he was too drunk to know what he was doing!
Obviously AB 2223 is CRAZY and WRONG. Their “amendments” are only sleight-of-hand trickery to make us THINK it is somehow okay now. Just amazing.
Look at the assembly member list of YES votes! Look how many there are! We should all memorize it.
Find your state senator here and contact them to VOTE NO on this abomination.
https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators
It looks like the clot shot hasn’t been killing enough Americans. So they come up with what all dictators do. Kill the young to control population. Hair Gel and his thugs are worthy of the communist chinese tactics. Even they recognize now that they need higher birth rates. Murdering babies is beyond wrong. They’re looking at when the SCOTUS bans abortions in states that don’t want it and moms coming to Kaly can kill the kid weeks later. It is then nothing less than OUTRIGHT MURDER. . This could well be the end of the crazies in Kaly.
Let’s hope, Jim James! For an end to the crazies in California, that is.
The more I see and read and hear about Buffy Wicks, I form an opinion of her that she is an angry, vile woman, devoid of a normal, functioning soul….
She has the same dead eyes as a shark does….
And of course, we have the nearby “Rainbow Flag”… is that the state flag of California now???
No bias in thought or legislative representation there, now is there???
The only flags that should be in the legislative chamber are the US and California State flags… everything else is a personal demonstration of biased thinking….
In the photo with Buffy Wicks it looks like the back of Asm Phil Ting’s head. He’s a proud member of the LGBTQ++ legislative caucus, I believe. The photo angle is funny, but it must be his rainbow flag.
They need to watch : Dr Anthony Levatino: Testimony before Congress
Abortion Procedures: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Trimesters – Dr Levatino (You Tube)
They either don’t understand fully what they are agreeing to, or they’re vile, soulless, and inhuman
Next level demon for tourism and profit. Maybe God just wanted to expose them all before striking them down
in eternal damnation. I invoke freedom for California from the sinister evil that has plagued this state. We are pleading in the name of Jesus Christ, rebuke them, bind them, cast them out. God’s will not my will be done.
AMEN
“To end life through abortion divides life into the unborn and born, and we learn through Scripture this opposes God’s view of both being equally human.”
I am still stuck on the paragraph where “Newson is offering CA taxpayer dollars to pay for out of state residents abortions and infanticide.” Aside from moral shock, I’d have to ask, where is the break for taxpayers? How about reducing CA taxpayers bills instead of paying for every nonresidents abortions, healthcare, food, lodging and more? How about giving taxpayers their money back instead of spending it on every issue, person, reason that does not benefit the California residents who pay to live there?
No, no, you’re absolutely right, Stacy. There is no discussion about this, really ANY of it, just Gavin’s usual jabbering lies as he campaigns….. but not for Governor! For President! We’re on the receiving end of so much endless insanity and destruction because of these people we can hardly see straight. I’m with Marilyn Midura — this isn’t going to end well for them. One way or another, this is not going to end well for them.
These murders…AND THEY ARE MURDERS…of innocent and DEFENSELESS children will not be allowed in South Dakota. Oh and by the way, IF SCOTUS puts an end to Roe v. Wade, abortions won’t be allowed in our state either. It’s too bad that the parents of these politicians gleefully pushing the murder of fetuses and the newborn did not abort THEIR children to begin with. We cherish children in our state and try to follow the Word of God to the best of our abilities.
I simply can’t understand how any sane person could/would kill a BABY near birth, or a viable BABY for any reason. I’ve seen a video of HOW an unborn baby is “aborted”. It’s as horrible and barbaric, yet it’s the only way to get the BABY out, unless labor is induced. IF labor is induced, then a live birth occurs. Then…??? This must NOT happen.
Buffy & The Globe are jokes, & u nitwits eating up such comically false nonsense like this is actual bonafide reporting, need to take off the tin foil hats, go outside & touch some grass.
its allowed through the 9th month and no investigation, no coroner inquest, no medical examiner up to 28 days after birth is opportunity infantacide. Read the Bill. This article clearly represents exactly what’s in the Bill AB2223. You can read it fir yourself. Your tinfoil hat is foolishness to think this did not happen and a black soul if you do know and condone the murder of viable fetuses and infants born alive outside the womb. Abortion thru the 9th month up until now, after birth. This is despicable. There’s not a foul enough word to describe the madness.
Correction: Kathy Grimes, not Buffy, …”and The Globe are jokes..”
Musta been laughing so hard at this steller “investigative reporting” I accidentally switched em up.
Laughing at what you think is a fluke of misguided reporting is a truthful article expressing exactly what is i Senate Bill n AB2223. Go read it fir yourself. Dispering remarks to objectors of full term infantacide and opposition fir infanticide without consequences is an evil act. Nothing to laugh about ending the lives of born alive or days, hours, away from birth babies painfully killed is despicable and without any moral compass, compassion or value for human lives.
According to what I read on the Berkeleyside website, Buffy is also for forced vaccination of everybody in the state. She’s “Pro Choice”.
Things have degenerated to genuinely sinister criminality with respect to media AND “academic” denialism about the lies being promulgated about the mRNA experiment. There are so many aspects to this it’s hard to keep track but Naomi Wolf’s substack piece “Facing the Beast” is a good start–the Pfizer BionTech program has now teamed up with an arm of the Chinese killers to now they will shoot Chinese-made Mystery Mush into your arm and jam their swabs up your nose. Web search to see what is happening to your DNA they got off those “test” swabs. Oh, and the Chinese-controlled WHO minions just denied approval to an alternative vaccine, a new technique derived from plants that would solve any objections due to derivations from aborted tissue. The Medicago firm from Canada was partly funded by Phillip Morris, therefore the WHO says it’s tobacco-related and cannot be used!
Simply irrepressible! It appears Western Civilization is on the abyss to destruction. Man’s selfish, barbaric, evil, perverse, vile, and violent nature is “coming to a head.” This is what progressive political ideology promotes…the killing/murder of children. We are no longer a civilized country. We are a morally bankrupt and barbaric nation. God have mercy on the state of California and the USA.
INFANTICIDE IS MURDER PLAIN AND SIMPLE AND PEOPLE WILL BE PROSECUTED!!!!!!