WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Postpartum Psychosis, Postpartum Period, Postpartum Depression
Document Summary
We will reprise, and build on last week"s info, Last week we covered material in the historical articles. This week we will look at bauman who wants to get rid of insanity law. And we will also look at o"donovan, who summarizes the feminist objection. The 3 core infanticide sections were talked about last week (penalties and what has to be proven to convict). We also discussed other parts of the framework that are connected to it. We talked about the technical one that is designed to prevent mothers with assistance killing the baby in delivering and avoiding infanticide because it isn"t a living being. The courts brought the 1-year limit in 1938 in england. Canada s. 237 every female person who commits infanticide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
