Homicide during pregnancy.

WORKING DRAFT
2006
STATE OF
WYOMING
06LSO-0359

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0066

Homicide during pregnancy.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Barrasso, Anderson, J., Cooper,
Jennings
and Ross and Representative(s) Brechtel, Gingery,
Harvey
and Lubnau

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to homicide; establishing the offense of homicide of an unborn child when mother is murdered; imposing a penalty; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 6
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2
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109 is created to read:

6
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2
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109.

Homicide of an unborn child; penalty.

Whoever willfully and deliberately kills any pregnant woman, knowing that the woman is pregnant and thereby causes the involuntary termination of the woman's pregnancy without a live birth is guilty of homicide of an unborn child, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term not less than twenty (20) years.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2006.

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