Column: Murder of unborn child raises legal questions (read to the end!)

Collegiate Times ^ | 7/5/2007 | David Williams

[markomalley]

Jessie Davis was murdered. Why is this national news? Domestic homicides are tragic, far too commonplace, and if CNN were to cover them all there would be no time for anything else. So why among all the murders across the nation has hers been so significant?

It just so happens that Jessie Davis was experiencing a growth of tissue in her uterus at the time of her death. In other situations this would be a trivial detail. Imagine the news headline, “Slain Man Autopsy Shows Benign Colon Polyp.” No reporter would draw attention to such an inconsequential health condition. Any armchair CSI detective knows that when a person is killed and thrown in a field, all his associated living tissue deceases with him. It is not a man and a polyp that is murdered, simply a man. Unless the crime lab can link the polyp to a certain type of carcinogenic poisoning that implicates the murderer, that’s the end of the story regarding his digestive tract.

In Davis’ situation, however, the multi-cellular growth developing in her abdomen has been elevated to a status far beyond polyp. With dramatic inflection, and pause for commercial break, news anchors prompt the question whether the accused killer will face one count of murder… or two. This leads inevitably to the even more controversial question: is it possible to murder an unborn clump of cells?

This particular clump of cells was named Chloe. Her delivery was anticipated on Tuesday. According to Ohio law, if such a clump, clinically referred to as a fetus and commonly known as an unborn child, is determined to be viable outside the body then it is capable of being murdered. And so we await for the judicial process to be carried out as the suspected boyfriend is tried for double-homicide. Tragically it takes the simultaneous murder of both a mother and her unborn child to remind us of the reality of pre-birth humanity. 4,000 Chloes are murdered in America each day with no one to press charges on their behalf.

[markomalley]

I was going to post this with a *barf alert* until I read the last two sentences:

"Tragically it takes the simultaneous murder of both a mother and her unborn child to remind us of the reality of pre-birth humanity. 4,000 Chloes are murdered in America each day with no one to press charges on their behalf."

[markomalley]

pro-life ping

[grids7]

I think the distinction the author makes between the thoughts and feelings we all have toward the "extra tissue" when the distinction between the tissue is polyp vs. fetus/baby is exactly what abortion supporters also feel but do not dare acknowledge for fear of losing their "right".

It's disgusting to me that if "Daddy" does the deed, it's murder, but not for "Mommy" or "The Doctor" when it's her decision.

[Dudoight]

“It’s disgusting to me that if “Daddy” does the deed, it’s murder, but not for “Mommy” or “The Doctor” when it’s her decision.”

You got that right! The world has gone crazy.

[AFPhys]

Mother Theresa had it right:

February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President [Clinton] and the First Lady. “What is taking place in America is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another.”

[DMZFrank]

Here is another great example of the down the rabbit hole insanity that abortion “law” is. A few years ago in Chicago, a married manager of a fast food resturant was charged with the murder of his girlfriend and her unborn child. It seems that he knocked her up, and she came to extort him for hush money, part of which was to go for an abortion. He killed her because he didn’t want to pay the dough for it.

While the murder charges for the girlfriend are easy to understand, I was struck as to how there was almost no discussion of the fact that he got charged for achieving precisely the same objective for the child that the “mother” was seeking and that she would have been entirely free of legal consequence for by having the deed performed by a medical hitman.

Aside from the grave moral implications, abortion law is also the greatest insult to logic and linear reasoning that was ever perpetrated by man or Supreme Court justice!!!