Perhaps, for completeness, I should have clarified wounding and gbh with intent. Section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 , as amended, gives two ways of committing the offence. The accused is guilty if he has 'unlawfully and maliciously' either wounded someone with intent to cause grievous bodily harm or caused them grievous bodily harm with that intent. The count in the indictment pleads one or the other, not both. In practice, wounding is only charged in a count of s18 if the wound is serious; stabbing someone with a blade, for example. Nearly always , such a wound causes grievous bodily harm anyway, but, nonetheless it is charged it as s18 wounding Our Victorian ancestors thought that stabbing somebody with a blade and with that intent was so serious that it should be treated as just as serious as causing them grievous bodily harm with intent, whether or not grievous bodily harm resulted from the assault.We still think so today. If your assaliant used a knife, he'd be on a s18 wounding, if he used an ashtray or other blunt instrument, he'd be on a s18 gbh .
If you look at the Infant Life (Preservation ) Act you will see that there is a presumption that a woman who is 28 weeks pregnant is carrying a child capable of being born alive. That may simplify your story, from a legal point of view, in case you were considering such a gynaecological or obstetric detail !