I would also note that in many states a criminal assault which harms the alive unborn is actionable as an additional crime, thus the fetus does have standing in that way.
8,091 posted on
06/22/2009 9:02:35 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
And one last point on the Stallman case:
That the child was born alive albeit severely injured begs the truth that this child was alive thus existed prior to birth, unless the law is now ready to play magic thinking--magic thinking = 'not until born into the air is the child alive'.
8,093 posted on
06/22/2009 9:05:22 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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