The authors reflected on the issues in the Criminal Law of Moldova concerning the protection of the fetus. There have been identified a number of contradictions in the text of law, where – on one hand, the unborn child is protected by the Criminal Code, while on the other, it is not. In consequence, while admitting abortion as legal, the law aggravates the penalty for criminal offences directed against pregnant women. The piece of writing explains why these ideas are incompatible and how the legal conflict can be reconciled by using a number of amendments proposed in this article.