Fraser Anning (Queensland, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Just to clarify for Senator Hinch and Senator Waters regarding murder: section 313 of the Criminal Code Act 1899 formally contained two offences in relation to killing an unborn child. It specified:

(1) Any person who, when a female is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that, if the child had been born alive and had then died, the person would be deemed to have unlawfully killed the child, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment for life.

(2) Any person who unlawfully assaults a female pregnant with a child and destroys the life of, or does grievous bodily harm to, or transmits a serious disease to, the child before its birth, commits a crime.

However, under the Palaszczuk government Termination of Pregnancy Act, section 313 of the Criminal Code Act was amended by inserting the new subsection section 313(1A)— (Time expired)

Question negatived.