Posted on 01/05/2015 7:44:08 PM PST by Morgana
An Indiana man, Jarod Rebuck, was charged with attempted feticide after mixing abortion-inducing herbs into the drink of his pregnant girlfriend. Indiana law defines feticide as knowingly or intentionally terminating a human pregnancy with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.
Rebuck’s girlfriend became suspicious after she noticed her drink tasted funny and found web searches on his phone about natural abortion “treatments.”
Later Rebuck allegedly told officers he wasn’t “in a position to have children financially or mentally.” Now Rebuck could face up to 20-years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Rebuck’s girlfriend did not miscarry and is still pregnant; but some women haven’t been so lucky. For example, as LifeNews previously reported, in Florida John Andrew Welden tricked his pregnant girlfriend into taking an abortion pill by telling her it was an antibiotic. In actuality, the pill was the second drug in the deadly RU-486 abortion regimen.
In order to trick her, first Welden told his girlfriend that she had an infection and then switched the label on the abortion pill so that the medication would appear to be a common antibiotic. Her unborn baby died at 6-weeks old, and Welden was sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, if the state of Florida had passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act before the time of Welden’s crime, he would have faced a mandatory life sentence if convicted of first-degree murder.
As tragic as this story was, it did highlight the importance of legislation that would protect unborn babies and women who are victims of violence. Currently, in the United States 37 states have protective laws in place; and earlier this year Florida passed legislation that recognizes the unlawful killing of an unborn child as homicide in at least some circumstances.
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The Florida Senate sponsor of the bill, Kelli Stargel, says overall the message is clear. She said, “My hope is with this that when a person is going to commit a crime against the woman, they need to take into consideration that if she’s pregnant, it’s going to cause a pretty stiff penalty and they’re going to think twice.”
Although Indiana law isn’t one of the 37 states that recognize unborn children as victims throughout the entire period of pre-natal development, they do have partial coverage; that is, they define the killing of “a fetus that has attained viability” as murder, voluntary manslaughter, or involuntary manslaughter.
feticide == abortion.
tell me what the definition difference is.
and why prosecute a guy for exercising his choice? not just for women anymore.
Well Kelli has taken the legal status of the mom (a sure thing) and used that to piggyback on protections for the child (not such a sure thing). No doubt that is because this Republican State Senator and mother of five is aware that any right thinking woman (95% at least) is going to reflexively use her own body to protect her kids. To some degree you owe you own existence to this impulse.
But, but, he was just exercising his “reproductive rights.”
Good point. Under the present American Abortion Regime, the mother of an unborn child has the "right" (yeah, I know) to kill the unborn child at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, with the permission and in spite of any objections of anyone else. The father of that same child has no rights at all. The American Abortion Regime is a putrid compound of injustices.
Feticide sounds exactly like abortion. I also would like to know the difference in the Catch 22 scenario.
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