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· 11/21/1988

Stallman v. Youngquist

Citations

  • 531 N.E.2d 355
  • 125 Ill. 2d 267
  • 78 A.L.R. 4th 1071
  • 126 Ill. Dec. 60
  • 1988 Ill. LEXIS 159

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  • holding no legal duty, and noting \[j]udicial scrutiny into the day-to-day lives of pregnant women would involve an unprecedented intrusion into the privacy and autonomy of the citizens of this State\
  • noting that the injuries to the fetus become apparent at its birth
  • “The way to effectuate the birth of healthy babies is not, however, through after-the-fact [criminal] liability[] for individual mothers, but rather through before-the-fact education of all women and families about prenatal development”

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Judges: Cunningham, Stamos

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