Incidentally it would have been illegal in the UK for her mother to kill her at 20 weeks. But her mother continued to knowingly injure her (she was told not to do this by health care workers) between weeks 20-40.
The girl's injuries don't count legally because they were inflicted before birth.
Whew.
Tissue mass alert! Or is that just an unwanted growth?
Okay, let’s break this down logically. An unborn inside a person is an organism. A human being is an organism. Therefore, an unborn inside a person is a human being. Simple enough?
I don't even see the point of taking the case against the girl. What are the chances that the girl will ever be able to pay the judgement; slim to none.
On a more serious note the foolish judges may have done dealt a much more serious blow to human rights than they know.
Now that it is carved in judicial stone that a fetus is not a person it can be treated as a cancer or other disease.
A severely damaged fetus such as this girl was could be considered an unviable fetus and there by a potential unwarranted burden on the state. Such a burden on the state may be determined to be a catastrophic disease requiring immediate and aggressive treatment.
There is already court rulings that minor children can be treated for serious disease against the consent of the parents. It is but a small step for the state to decide that an abortions could be ordered by the state once the personhood of the fetus is no longer an obstacle.