[risk]

unbelievable...

I know many people here won't want to consider this, but I believe the concept of fetal homicide is effective only when it considers the intent of the mother.

Few are capable of seeing the distinction as useful, and most here on FR will cry foul because of their religious beliefs.

We could do much for fetal protection if we could find more ways of compromising.

May Laci and her baby boy rest in peace, and may their loving families find solace in knowing how many millions of us grieve with them at this time.

[An American In Dairyland]

>>I know many people here won't want to consider this, but I believe the concept of fetal homicide is effective only when it considers the intent of the mother. <<

You are apparently saying that a fetus is only human life depending on if any individual woman wants it to be human life. IOW if Laci didn't want that poor baby, than the baby's life and death was irrelevant. I disagree.

Human life is human life and individual women have no right to decide the value of another's life. BTW, I am a woman and a mother.

[Yeti]

I know many people here won't want to consider this, but I believe the concept of fetal homicide is effective only when it considers the intent of the mother.

Interesting. I was thinking along similar lines.

Even with the laws as they exist, how can they be applied to protect Scott without Laci invoking her "right to privacy" about the incident?

Laci's body, Scott's choice?

Does NOW advocate not only abortion, but forced, involuntary abortion?

I think there are probably some men's rights groups that would be interested to know that.

[Paulus Invictus]

How do you compromise on the act of murder? That's a joke, asking for a compromise on the matter! Abortion has nothing to do with religious beliefs, in my case, but what really constitutes a human life. Calling a baby a fetus is nothing more than denying physiological and biological facts.

Have you ever seen a sonogram of a baby in its mother's womb? A look could prove to you that it is a living baby, not a discardable piece of tissue. Your arguments are pathetic, but we have learned that you pro-abortionists are unable to accept the facts!

[Knither]

There are some serious philosophical principles that don't allow for the kind of compromise you advocate.

What else in this world is defined by an emotional response to it? If the parents want the fetus, then it's human. If they don't want it, it's not human and can be killed without calling it murder. Wanting or not wanting something doesn't form the basis of defining it.


A fetus is either a human being or it isn't.

P.S. How did you start out?