Section 315 IPC deals with “Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth” and Section 316 IPC deals with “Causing death of a quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide. In the above penal provisions, the unborn child is protected from any act which prevents it from being born and also provides punishment for causing its death which is considered equivalent to culpable homicide.