The abortion question?

Question

This is something I've wondered for a while now, so I'm not trying to stir up anger; I'm just curious. If a person can be charged with two cases of homicide for murdering a pregnant woman, why is abortion still legal?

Answer 1

The correct answer is it is only a double murder charge if she's late enough in her term for an abortion to be illegal.  So a woman pregnant a short time then murdered is a single murder.

Answer 2

People could fight all day long whether abortion is right or wrong, but I agree with the poster a few posts above me who says the REAL fight is about whether it should be a choice or not.

Answer 3

the fight over abortion is not about whether it's right or wrong. It's whether a woman has the RIGHT to control her own body. It's like suicide. Morally, it's frowned upon but who are we to tell a person they cant "go" if they want to.

Answer 4

Pre Roe v. Wade authorities never pulled dead rich women from back allies.

Societies upper echelon in the lodges and the country clubs had their doctors do it in the comfort and safety of their office.

The local sheriff knew all about it but if he wanted to keep his job and win the next election he knew that he'd better watch his P's and Q's. Get it?

Meanwhile the same sheriff helped pull dead a injured poor women from their demise. It was right that safe abortions only applied to the affluent.

You know who was most for Roe v. Wade? Sheriffs!

Answer 5

This question has been asked about a million times. Try searching for questions before you post your own. It's because it's the mother's choice and because it should be legal.

Answer 6

It's a really basic question folks

At what stage of the pregnancy will  the fetus stand a reasonable chance of survival if it removed  from it's mother's womb and placed in a NICU ?

If the fetus will survive then it is a viable human being that has civil rights and that the State has a legal obligation to prosecute  those who would try to take away it's civil rights by doing harm to it or by killing it

If however that even in the best of NICUs  the fetus has absolutely zero chance of surviving outside of it's mother's womb then it is still part of it's mother body and as such the State's interests shift over to protecting the privacy/civil rights of the mother.

Although I'm pro-choice I have always  felt that the Left really screwed this issue up by not insisting on a 10 week cut off date for all but the most medically urgent of abortions  and that the Right in their unwillingness to meet the Left at such a reasonable place continues to fight this war long after it should have been over >possibly as a way to perpetuate other aspects of the Right's  own political  agenda.

Answer 7

I've thought of that before too.

It's just another example of the illogical folly of the legal system.

Answer 8

It seems like if it was a "wanted" child, it's murder. If it is "unwanted," then it is a choice. I think that's why pro-life people felt it was a victory when the Lacy Peterson law was signed, which says that a person commits two homicides if they murder a pregnant woman. It is quite contradictory, isn't it?

Answer 9

Abortion is legal when the mother chooses it.  Because it is considered "her body, her right."

Anybody else has no right to take either life.

Answer 10

It's only legal during the early part of pregnancy, it's illegal for third trimester.  How far along was the woman that was murdered?

Answer 11

Her body. Her child. Freedom of choice.

Answer 12

But zippo if she had the baby she couldnt kill him/her.