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[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by bilmore
I think it has to do with immediacy. If I arrange for the care of a newborn baby, and then leave town, the baby doesn't die, and I probably don't get charged with a crime. But, because it's the mom who is pregnant and gives birth, it's the mom who has that opportunity, at the moment of birth, to deliver and walk away, leaving kidlet to die. I imagine if dad was in charge of the baby, and then left it in an alley to die, dad would be charged, too. It's just that the greater opportunity for that kind of thing lies with the mom.

Which is easier to prosecute? Who's going to get convicted first?