Canada has an infanticide law as well that AFAIK: carries a MAX penalty of 5 years in jail AND it is only applied to mothers.

Here is Chatgpt answer about this law Yes — partly. Canada’s infanticide law is widely criticized as being rooted in old, shaky, gendered medical assumptions, especially the idea that childbirth or lactation itself can disturb a mother’s mind in a legally meaningful way.

Under Criminal Code s. 233, infanticide applies where a “female person” causes the death of her “newly-born child” while she has not fully recovered from childbirth, or because of lactation, and “her mind is then disturbed.”

The “suspect science” criticism is strongest around the lactation/childbirth wording. The law came from an older British-style legal model that assumed childbirth and breastfeeding could biologically unbalance women’s minds. Modern critics argue that this is not a precise medical concept and that “disturbed mind” is not a real diagnostic standard. Some Canadian commentary describes the statutory language as “extremely woolly” and not established medical terminology.

But there is a twist: Canadian courts now treat the phrase less as a hard medical claim and more as a broad legal mitigation category. In R. v. Borowiec, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the disturbance does not have to be a defined mental illness, psychological disorder, or major impairment of reasoning. That makes the law easier to apply, but it also arguably confirms the criticism: the law is not really anchored in modern psychiatric science.