[Reno89519]

A complication comes as to when life begins, e.g., conception. If a mother has the right to kill her baby prior to birth, then is it fair and right to charge someone else with injuring or killing the baby within that same period? Thus, if someone kills a pregnant woman, the only charge of murder is for killing the pregnant woman? I ask because it otherwise creates unequal application of the law or unequal rights--either it is legal to kill the baby or it is not. What about the doctor and accomplices killing the baby? Like I said, complicated.

Taken literally, a woman may have the right to kill her baby, but should that confer to the doctor?

[GenXPolymath]

A lot of people don’t believe in the Catholic life at conception and therefore legal murder from day one. It’s not defined in federal law and some states have moved to define when exactly that point is. From an equal protection under the 14th it should be defined and then equally enforced. I think most people would agree that after 20 weeks or so viability becomes virtually certain and if someone kills the mother than they also should be charged with two homicides. This is also the point a lot of people say only for the life of the mother should any medical procedure be performed and if the viable child can be saved then it should be the choice then is no questions asked surrender of the child to CPS just like a baby drop box surrender. 12 weeks 15 there is zero possibility of viability so a different legal issue entirely. I don’t concern myself with other people’s mortality or religion in fact I could careless about either. Each state save for a constitutional amendment defining the scientific point of viability and protection of life after that point in federal level homicide law will have to let the voters decide. Local is always best when society must come together and define law based on the cultures moral and societal norms. These change over time and should be revisited when they do.