They’d better be careful in deciding this is murder.
There are going to be a lot of 14 year old schoolboys charged with murder for doping their girlfriends’ drinks daily in effort to keep them from becoming pregnant as they fool around.
Once upon a time that was “statutory rape” but the sex positive proponents said that it was wrong to charge them with “rape”. Now they will face murder charges. Such an improvement...
Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 is the federal statute that he is being prosecuted under. Basically, if you commit a federal crime that results in the death of a fetus, you can be charged with felony murder. Many states also have similar statutes. It is a natural extension of standard felony murder statutes.
The originating federal felony was the product tampering of relabeling a medication, which is a nasty crime in and of itself.