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Bill C-291

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Criminal Code by imposing, on a person who injures or causes the death of a child before or during its birth while committing or attempting to commit an offence against the mother who is pregnant with the child, the same punishment that the person would have received had the death or injury occurred to the mother.

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