Child destruction, the Glossary
Child destruction is the name of a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong and in some parts of Australia.[1]
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70 relations: Abortion, Abortion Act 1967, Abortion in the United Kingdom, Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Victoria), Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice, Attempt, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Belfast Telegraph, Born alive rule, Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law, Childbirth, Coroner, Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Crime, Crimes Act 1900, Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945, Criminal Justice Act 1948, Criminal Law Act 1967, Criminal law of Australia, Crown Prosecution Service, Dick Atkin, Baron Atkin, Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, England and Wales, Felony, Fetal viability, Fetus, Foeticide, Grievous bodily harm, Hansard, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Legal Information Institute, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, Indictable offence, Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, Infanticide, King's Bench Division, Late termination of pregnancy, Law of Northern Ireland, Legislation.gov.uk, Life imprisonment, Life imprisonment in England and Wales, Manslaughter, Manslaughter in English law, Miscarriage, Murder, New South Wales, News Letter, ... Expand index (20 more) »
- Abortion law
- Pregnancy with abortive outcome
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Child destruction and Abortion are pregnancy with abortive outcome.
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Abortion Act 1967
The Abortion Act 1967 (c. 87) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised abortion in Great Britain on certain grounds by registered practitioners, and regulated the tax-paid provision of such medical practices through the National Health Service (NHS).
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Abortion in the United Kingdom
Abortion in the United Kingdom is de facto available under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 in Great Britain and the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No.2) Regulations 2020 in Northern Ireland.
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Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Victoria)
The Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 is an abortion law reform passed by the Victorian Parliament in the Australian state of Victoria in 2008. Child destruction and abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Victoria) are abortion law.
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Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (usually called simply Archbold) is the leading practitioners' book for criminal lawyers in England and Wales and several other common law jurisdictions around the world.
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Attempt
An attempt to commit a crime occurs if a criminal has an intent to commit a crime and takes a substantial step toward completing the crime, but for reasons not intended by the criminal, the final resulting crime does not occur.
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Australasian Legal Information Institute
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is an institution operated jointly by the Faculties of Law of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia.
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Belfast Telegraph
The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland.
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Born alive rule
The born alive rule is a common law legal principle that holds that various criminal laws, such as homicide and assault, apply only to a child that is "born alive".
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Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law
Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law, formerly published as An Introduction to Criminal Law and as Cross and Jones' Introduction to Criminal Law, and referred to as Cross and Jones, is a book about the criminal law of England and Wales, originally written by Sir Rupert Cross and Philip Asterley Jones, and then edited by them and Richard Card.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.
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Coroner
A coroner is a government or judicial official who is empowered to conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death.
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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)
The Court of Appeal (formally "His Majesty's Court of Appeal in England", commonly cited as "CA", "EWCA" or "CoA") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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Crimes Act 1900
The Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).
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Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945
The Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 (c. 15 (N.I.)) is an act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
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Criminal Justice Act 1948
The Criminal Justice Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 58) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Criminal Law Act 1967
The Criminal Law Act 1967 (c. 58) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made some major changes to English criminal law, as part of wider liberal reforms by the Labour government elected in 1966.
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Criminal law of Australia
The criminal law of Australia is the body of law in Australia that relates to crime.
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Crown Prosecution Service
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales.
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Dick Atkin, Baron Atkin
James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin, (28 November 1867 – 25 June 1944), commonly known as Dick Atkin, was an Australian-born British judge, who served as a lord of appeal in ordinary from 1928 until his death in 1944.
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Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the head of the Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland, and is appointed by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland.
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England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
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Felony
A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious.
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Fetal viability
Fetal viability is the ability of a human fetus to survive outside the uterus.
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Fetus
A fetus or foetus (fetuses, foetuses, rarely feti or foeti) is the unborn offspring that develops from a mammal embryo.
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Foeticide
Foeticide (British English), or feticide (North American English), is the act of killing a fetus, or causing a miscarriage. Child destruction and Foeticide are pregnancy with abortive outcome.
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Grievous bodily harm
Assault occasioning grievous bodily harm (often abbreviated to GBH) is a term used in English criminal law to describe the severest forms of battery.
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Hansard
Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Hong Kong Legal Information Institute
The Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (香港法律資訊中心, HKLII; pronounced "H K Lee") is a non-governmental organisation in Hong Kong.
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Indictable offence
In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).
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Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929
The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 34) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Infanticide
Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring.
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King's Bench Division
The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts.
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Late termination of pregnancy
Late termination of pregnancy, also referred to politically as third trimester abortion, describes the termination of pregnancy by inducing labor during a late stage of gestation.
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Law of Northern Ireland
The law of Northern Ireland is the legal system of statute and common law operating in Northern Ireland since the partition of Ireland established Northern Ireland as a distinct jurisdiction in 1921.
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Legislation.gov.uk
legislation.gov.uk, formerly known as the UK Statute Law Database, is the official Web-accessible database of the statute law of the United Kingdom, hosted by The National Archives.
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Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).
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Life imprisonment in England and Wales
In England and Wales, life imprisonment is a sentence that lasts until the death of the prisoner, although in most cases the prisoner will be eligible for parole after a minimum term set by the judge.
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Manslaughter
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.
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Manslaughter in English law
In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder, the differential being between levels of fault based on the mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") or by reason of a partial defence.
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Miscarriage
Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion, is the death and expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive independently. Child destruction and Miscarriage are pregnancy with abortive outcome.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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News Letter
The News Letter is one of Northern Ireland's main daily newspapers, published from Monday to Saturday.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Offences Against the Person Act
Offences Against the Person Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in Hong Kong, in New Zealand, in Tasmania, in Jamaica, and in Antigua and Barbuda, relating to offences against the person.
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Offences Against the Person Act 1861
The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Omagh bombing
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
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PA Media (formerly the Press Association) is a multimedia news agency.
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Penal labour
Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
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Re A (conjoined twins)
Re A (conjoined twins) 2 WLR 480 is a Court of Appeal (England and Wales) decision on the separation of conjoined twins.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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States and territories of Australia
The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia.
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Statute
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.
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Suspended sentence
A suspended sentence is a sentence on conviction for a criminal offence, the serving of which the court orders to be deferred in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Unsafe abortion
An unsafe abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by people lacking the necessary skills, or in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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See also
Abortion law
- ADPF 442
- ADPF 54
- Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Victoria)
- Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 (New South Wales)
- Abortion in Europe
- Abortion law
- Abortion law by country
- Abortion under communism
- Born-Alive Infants Protection Act
- Catholic Church and abortion politics
- Child destruction
- Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996
- Conscientious objection to abortion
- Decree 770
- Fetal rights
- History of abortion law debate
- Human Life Amendment
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on abortion in the United States
- Law on the interruption of pregnancy in the German Democratic Republic
- Legal protection of access to abortion
- Minors and abortion
- North Carolina Women's Right to Know Act
- Paternal rights and abortion
- Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
- Repeal Act (Virginia)
- Reproductive Health Act
- Rosie's Law
- Sandbæk Report
- Security of person
- Termination of Pregnancy Act (Zimbabwe)
- Texas House Bill 2
- Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill (Argentina)
- Wrongful abortion
- Wrongful life
Pregnancy with abortive outcome
- Abortion
- Asherman's syndrome
- Blighted ovum
- Breus' mole
- Child destruction
- Coffin birth
- Early pregnancy loss
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Embryo loss
- Fetal resorption
- Fetotomy
- Foeticide
- Lithopedion
- Miscarriage
- Mizuko kuyō
- Molar pregnancy
- Murder of pregnant women
- Parasitic twin
- Perinatal bereavement
- Perinatal mortality
- Pregnancy loss
- Pregnancy with abortive outcome
- Repeated implantation failure
- SMEDI
- Stillbirth
- Vanishing twin
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_destruction
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