19 - Abortion, Birth, and Infanticide 2026

Reclusion temporal

Penalty for intentional abortion with violence against the pregnant woman

Prison mayor

Penalty for intentional abortion without violence, but without the consent of the pregnant woman

Prison correccional

Penalty for intentional abortion with the consent of the pregnant woman

Prison correccional in its minimum and medium period

Penalty for unintentional abortion

Prison correccional in its maximum period

Penalty for a physician or midwife for dispensing abortives

Hydrostatic test (Fodere test)

One of the tests to determine whether respiration took place in a newborn child before death

Wredin test

Disappearance of the gelatinous embryonic connective tissue in the middle ear

Infanticide

The killing of a child less than 3 days old

Mother

Who usually commits infanticide?

• Child was born alive

• Child was deliberately killed

• Child killed was less than 3 days old

Proof of infanticide