[Wolfstar]

I purposefully paid zero attention to the Peterson case -- went out of my way to avoid it -- because it raised a number of key questions that no one wanted to address. I found that very frustrating.

This is one of them. How on earth can a society say it's OK for a mother to abort -- kill -- her fetus, yet's it's murder if the father or someone else does it? Actually, if the father can be guilty of murder for killing his fetus, then why doesn't that apply to doctors who abort fetuses?

It simply is an untenable position for the legal system to take.

[murphE]

How on earth can a society say it's OK for a mother to abort -- kill -- her fetus, yet's it's murder if the father or someone else does it? Actually, if the father can be guilty of murder for killing his fetus, then why doesn't that apply to doctors who abort fetuses?

Allow me to explain, whether an unborn baby is a human life or not is determined solely by whether it is wanted by the biological mother, or both the biological mother and father. If it is not wanted it is a fetus, a pregnancy to be 'terminated', a glob of cells, an undesired consequence to a specific desired behavior, an inconvenience to be eliminated.

There now doesn't that make perfect sense?/sarcasm