Last night while discussing this case, I mentioned that if someone (God forbid) killed her, then they could be charged for two murders.
She didn’t think that was true.
Who is right?
She is, in most states in the US. The fact that Scott Peterson was charged with the murder of his unborn son was essentially unprecedented.
We tried to pass a law to fix that here in New Hampshire a couple of years ago, but the pro-abortion crowd screamed that it was a “slippery slope.”
Should preface that law by saying: The killing of an "unborn child" at any stage of pre-natal development (outside of an abortion clinic) is intentional homicide, voluntary manslaughter, or involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide.
As an aside, when my sister-in-law was eight months pregnant with twins, she was hospitalized with high blood pressure. Every time I went to visit her, the doctor always reffered to "the fetus" instead of "the baby." It really creeped me out.
Wait, I may be behind the times here...
Yes, I am a bit - Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act in 2004. But that only applies to crimes having federal jurisdiction. According to the Wikipedia article (I know, I know...) 34 states have similar laws for state-jurisdiction crimes.
You are right!
You are, at least here in Massachusetts, of all places.