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The Concealment Act of 1624
The Concealment Act of 1624 is that it's like guilty until proven innocent because they're a woman. If your baby dies of natural causes, then you'll have to prove that it wasn't you. This is the extremely punitive way that we went about prosecuting women who we perhaps very slightly suspected of lying about having not killed their babies. And what happens interestingly is that this extremely punitive law, because the punishment is death and increasingly courts are reluctant to execute women for this.
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