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  • New York's Reproductive Health Act (RHA) of 2019 altered the legal landscape for pregnancy-loss violence.
  • Previous laws integrated abortion and abortive offenses into homicide statutes.
  • The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA) of 2004 provides a contrasting legal framework.

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  • To analyze the statutory evolution of pregnancy-loss violence laws in New York from 1965 to the RHA.
  • To compare New York's RHA with the federal UVVA.
  • To explore the legal and bioethical implications of fetal personhood versus jurisdictional and consent-based frameworks.

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  • Comparative legal analysis of New York statutes (1965 Penal Law to RHA) and the federal UVVA.
  • Examination of legal frameworks governing pregnancy loss and violence.
  • Bioethical analysis of victim categorization and decisional authority.

Main Results:

  • The RHA confines homicide to the death of a
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  • The UVVA establishes a consent-gated, two-victim structure for certain federal crimes, exempting consensual abortions and medical treatments.
  • Both legal approaches utilize victim categories as governance tools, protecting women's autonomy without definitively resolving fetal moral status.

Conclusions:

  • The tension between abortion permissibility and fetal-protection liability is better understood through jurisdictional triggers and consent-based gating than fetal personhood.
  • New York's RHA prioritizes offenses against the pregnant individual, while the UVVA allows for a dual-victim framework under specific conditions.
  • These legal structures serve to protect women's decisional authority in reproductive healthcare decisions.