re: #330 nonic

The bare wording of the statute is only one part of the fact pattern. In order to know what, if anything, has been done with the statute, how it has (or has not) been applied — in other words, WHAT it means — one has to know whether prosecutors have used it and HOW, and how prosecutorial interpretation has fared in court.

The “bare wording” of the statute is the law on the books, and it says extremely clearly: the idea that a mother can kill a baby without legal consequences as long as it’s attached by an umbilical is just as ludicrous and false as it appears.