So will the AMA come up with some psychiatric term to describe the mindset that causes someone to do this...?
Sharper Minds Daily...
Posted on 12/28/2004 10:13:55 AM PST by skellmeyer
"Fetus Cut From Slain Woman's Body" the headlines screamed, as schizophrenia became the order of the day. Virtually every article on the latest incident of in vivo tissue-knapping vacillated on correct terminology. Should they refer to the contents of the uterus as a fetus or a baby? Was Bobbi Jo Stinnett, the murdered woman, a mother or a mother-to-be? The Amber Alert, an emergency response developed to help find missing children, was issued "for the missing fetus." But, within a day, the little one had become a "baby… named Victoria Jo." Fox News showed the most wildly inventive mix of terms in a single sentence, "Montgomery was in possession of the infant believed to be the stolen fetus when police found the baby on Friday, ending a day of frantic searching. DNA tests will confirm whether the girl is Stinnett's."
Whew. You’ve got to wonder how many editors threw their two cents in on that sentence.
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I suppose they should just make it easy. If the mother gives the consent to abort at any time then it's a non-human fetus entity. If the mother doesn't give her consent it's a baby
The Left and their media friends are so confused by the simplicity of life. In fact, they are just so confused on so many levels about so many things.
Amen. if everyone admitts that a BABY was cut from her Mother's womb. What does that make abortion that kills the BABY??????????
Even after birth?
All I want to know is how the perp knew how to cut the baby out of the mother without injuring the baby? did she have a nursing background? Or, as my husband conjectures, was she familiar with gutting deer?
This is a horrible case, and I feel so sorry for the Stinnett family, but the question remains...How did Mongomery succeed in removing the baby? I don't think any news story has addressed that yet. And since she's confessed, I doubt that there will be a trial -- just a sentencing.
They already did: "Liberal"
And as long as the baby doesn't object, then she should be able to kill it.
Obvious, but good point. I've been saying this ever since I saw the story, this will be a big arguement in the abortion debate.
Through all the articles on this, we're still not hearing anything from the baby's dad. Does he have custody yet?
Early reports that identified the (Montgomery's) red sedan in the driveway also mentioned a woman and two men.
Who were the two men? Was one of them medically trained? Are they still a part of the ongoing investigation...assuming that's the case?
I think this terminology is more a question of when a human gains personhood under the law. For instance, dependent death insurance benefits would not be paid for a miscarriage or non-live birth, as there is no recognized legal personhood. On the other hand, the Scott Peterson trial illustrates that California law has recongized personhood in a non-birthed human for purposes of criminal death.
I think the term "fetus" is most often used in reference to an unborn human, particularly one that is unable of being self-sustaining outside the womb. A "baby" is most often used in reference to a human that has been born alive and is capable of being self sustaining in its basic functions of eating and breathing. A baby has recognized separate personhood under the law.
Yes well at one time Blacks were non-persons. all kinds of outrages occur when people start deciding WHO gets personhood.
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