Note 56 — ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE.
Reading edition
By the law of most countries this crime is punished with more severity if committed after the quickening of the child, than before. The Roman Penal Code made the same distinction. By the decretals of the canon law (p. ii, causs. 32, p. ii, c. 8), “Non est homicida, quæ abortum procurat, antequam anima corporis sit infusa.”