CA: Laws on fetal slaying are complex, evolving

Sac Bee ^ | 4/24/03 | Michael Doyle

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON -- Baby Girl Vogt died years ago on a California mountain road, a ghastly step in the legal path that permits Scott Peterson to be charged with murdering his unborn son.

In a country where legal abortions are commonplace, fetal protections can only be described as complex. These complexities and conflicts are highlighted when, as in the Peterson case, police charge someone with murdering the not-yet-born.

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[OpusatFR]

This country is so lost on the left in an objectivist fog IMHO. How we can spend $1,000,000 on a premature infant born at 6 months all because his/her parents want this child, yet dither over the rights of a near term infant to be called human is so far beyond rationale that you could call it evil.

We are moving very close to Singer's ideal of ~Post-Uterine Abortions~.

[thoughtomator]

Yes... I can see some really ugly 'compromise' being hammered out where there are stages where killing the fetus with the mother's consent is legal, and killing it without the mother's consent is murder. And of course there'll be a case where the mother changes her mind in the middle of the abortion, gets the doctor put up on murder charges, and sues the state they're in for a trillion dollars.

[jocon307]

This is an interesting article,thanks for posting it. It seems clear that under California law Peterson can certainly be charged with the murder of the child. In fact, I found it very telling that the only NOW dame who opened her mouth on this was from way over here in NJ. Not the Cali chapter, not the National group, just some jaw-flapper in Joisey who got called up by a newspaper and didn't have the sense to say "no comment".

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