Why is abortion legal but when a mother is murdered its double murder?

Question

why is that?

Answer 1

probably because abortion is a mother's choice to give up the baby but if she still had it when she was murdered then it probably means she didn't want to so that baby would be considered a living being

Answer 2

Because liberals cry when a terrorist is interrogated but have no problem delivering a babies head and shoving a scalpel into the brain.

So Jeff, whether someone lives or dies should be someone else's choice?--I think a few tyrants of the past would agree with you.

Answer 3

Abortion is not completely legal everywhere under all circumstances. Killing a pregnant woman is not a double murder everywhere and under all circumstances.  Generally, the fetus would have to be viable for it to be murder, and generally if the fetus is viable then the state's can prohibit the abortion.  Get your facts straight before trying to make a logical argument.

Answer 4

Funny how that works, isn't it.  I guess it all comes down to who kills the fetus.

Answer 5

"You make it, you can take it"

Answer 6

When a pregnant woman aborts,it is a choice she has made. When a pregnant woman and her unborn child are murdered, it is not by her choice.

Answer 7

Because the intent of the law is that a woman has the right to choose to bring a life into the world.  If the choice is made for her it is murder.

Answer 8

Cause liberals are confused.

Answer 9

Abortion is just like murder except murder is cooler about that womans right that is like saying it is a choise to murder somebody

Answer 10

There's a balancing of rights. The mother has a right to autonomy in her own body. The baby has a right to live. When the baby is still dependent intimately on the mother to a point where it is reasonably considered more a part of the mother's body than it's own entity, abortion is legal. Generally, the balance is considered to flip at the age of viability, but the Supreme Court didn't set such a firm line.

However, that doesn't give someone else the right to make that decision. A person killing a pregnant woman has robbed the woman and the baby of their right to life.

Different states define when this is considered double murder differently (some require viability, some don't, some never consider it double murder), but that's the basic reason why state legislators feel they can make that determination and courts take no issue with it.