A law proposed to the Maryland legislature has pro-life advocates warning that it would seemingly allow for post-birth abortions up to 28 days after a child’s delivery, with the infants marked for death being forced to suffer without food or water until they expire.
Maryland Senate Bill 669, popularly known as the Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022, is more well known for changing “woman” to “person” when referring to individuals who are capable of bearing children, explains LifeSite.
According to American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) attorney Olivia Summers, it also allows for children to be abandoned to die for 28 days after birth with no questions asked:
In this case, as we are prepared to point out in our testimony, the bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion. In other words – this bill will effectively legalize infanticide. The exact language of the bill states: “This section may not be construed to authorize any form of investigation or penalty for a person . . . experiencing a . . . perinatal death related to a failure to act.” (Emphasis added). In other words, a baby born alive and well could be abandoned and left to starve or freeze to death, and nothing could be done to punish those who participated in that cruel death. The bill also includes a section that would allow “a person [to] bring a cause of action for damages if the person was subject to unlawful arrest or criminal investigation for a violation of this section as a result of . . . experiencing a . . . perinatal death.”
Thus, according to this bill, if a baby died because it was abandoned and police investigated and eventually arrested the person responsible for the baby’s death, then the woman could sue the police and get monetary damages for having been investigated and arrested.
LifeSite notes that, while Summers wrote that the state does not define “perinatal care,” a 2020 law defined it as the “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods.” The website adds that one definition “defines it as ‘the 20th to 28th week of gestation’ to ‘1 to 4 weeks after birth.’”
This method of post-birth abortion – allowing a child to expire from lack of care – was popularized among Democrats in 2019, when former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam endorsed post-birth abortion after Democrats in that state proposed it in a law. The law ultimately failed.
The disgraced governor, who left office to an incoming wave of Republicans boosted by his unpopularity and the unpopularity of Terry McAuliffe, infamously promised that healthcare providers would “keep the baby comfortable” as it expired of natural causes if the mother elected to have a post-birth abortion.
Soon after his statements surfaced, it was revealed that Northam received $2 million in campaign contributions from Planned Parenthood.

D3F1ANT
March 9, 2022 at 8:25 am
Even for Leftists, it seems pretty cruel and evil to allow an infant to starve to death–deliberately. My God. We’re supposed to see these folks simply as the other side of the American political coin. But this kind of evil is hard to accept.
SuzanneL
April 14, 2022 at 10:29 am
This has always been what the Democrat Party stood for. They’re just taking the mask off now.
Ben Colder
March 9, 2022 at 10:05 am
Things like this is what makes me think this country will not last most people would not treat a dog like that they would just knock it in the head put it out of its misery .What is it with babies its not that hard to prevent getting pregnant one sure way is don’t do the deed in the first place but if you can’t control yourself there are ways.What is it with these liberal bastards.
Reddit Man
March 9, 2022 at 10:35 am
28 days, 1 year, 5 years…
Deeann
March 22, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Then I’m all for it. I have a 36 year old son unable to take care of himself.
What’s the difference with one hour or 36 years? I gave him a fighting chance and a couple of 100 thousand dollars in ‘upkeep and care.’ education, cars, and he still ‘can’t find a job.’
SuzanneL
April 14, 2022 at 10:27 am
I have a sister-in-law who solved that by forcing her 32yo jobless daughter to covid-vax herself to death. Destroyed her liver, funeral was in January. Now she’s vaxxing the nare-do-well 6yo grandson left behind to death, and the dependent baby-daddy, as well as her 88yo mother, whom she also force-vaxxed, dies of vax-induced leukemia. She’ll be rid of the lot of those worthless louts yet. Such a cruel woman, blinded by her own arrogance, goes to church every day asking God what went wrong.
Here’s a better idea for you. Put your 36yo up for adoption. Or suggest he go make money “influencing” for Joe Biden on TikTok, or playing his video game addiction on YouTube. People will watch him, he’ll get paid ad revenue. Pay you rent.
coffeelove
March 9, 2022 at 10:48 am
beyond ironic…many “Woke” far left subscribers are against the
the death penalty for extreme crimes against humanity..
but killing “live” infants..that’s fine..in fact they argue..its a constitutional right
Bryan Taylor
March 23, 2022 at 10:41 pm
This is quite possibly the most barbaric thing I have ever seen. Even for democrats it is a new low. When I was in college there was a foreign student at the school that threw her baby away in the dumpster outside where she lived. Her explanation… “It is commonplace in the country I come from” I remember thinking if you are from a place that barbaric no wonder you came here. It makes no sense however because she was creating the same traditions she left behind. Foreigners in America need to learn our traditions, culture, and most importantly laws and abide by them. It is their duty to learn this stuff. We are the only country in the world that will let anyone in without at least checking the basic fact do they know anything about this place. Even Canada does not allow people with a DUI.
SuzanneL
April 14, 2022 at 10:39 am
Even the ancient Romans were dping this 2000 years ago. The new Christians were rescuing the abandoned babies on the hill sides, outraging the Romans, and this was the actual reason the Romans were feeding Christians to the lions. Go read “Third Time Around”, by George Grant.
It’s not that it’s so American to oppose infanticide. It’s that America is/was Christian.
Kilcrease
April 9, 2022 at 3:51 pm
I’m all for it if we are allowed to hunt the parents down and subject them to the same treatment. Monsters like that are not human and should be put down for the good of the species.
Michael Tomaino
April 19, 2022 at 10:00 am
The depth of liberal perversion is absolutely loathsome. These creatures have infiltrated our government and are doing everything in their power to destroy our Nation.. to what end?
ChukYooFarly
April 19, 2022 at 6:02 pm
DemoRats/Leftists/Liberals and their ilk are Satanic to their core.
Every day they find another way to kill people and make everyone else miserable.
That being said, I don’t understand why all the Pro-Lifers don’t step up and adopt these babies. C’mon. Why not? You can adopt dozens of them.