Why is it a "choice" when a pregnant mother kills the unborn but a double murder if that woman is killed?

Question

A lot of these answers are very illogical, and they don't answer the question.

Answer 1

thats deep sorry i duno the answer

Answer 2

before everything: sources are your friends! deliver them everywhere you pass! Secondly: maximum regulations invoked in double homicide trials will very from state to state, yet maximum of them matter on the degree of the being pregnant. In some states the homicide of a pregnant female can contain a value of manslaughter to contain the fetus. In Colorado, if a woman is murdered after her twenty 2nd week of being pregnant this is seen a double homicide. This regulation besides the undeniable fact that became in basic terms enacted some years in the past interior the aftermath of an fairly brutal rape/homicide of a pregnant teen. As yet another poster has already suggested there's a cut back on how long a woman can wait before she is now no longer eligible for an abortion.

Answer 3

Nine Reasons Why Abortions Are Legal

1. Laws against abortion kill women.
To prohibit abortions does not stop them. When women feel it is absolutely necessary, they will choose to have abortions, even in secret, without medical care, in dangerous circumstances. In the two decades before abortion was legal in the U.S., it's been estimated that nearly a million women per year sought out illegal abortions. Thousands died. Tens of thousands were mutilated. All were forced to behave as if they were criminals.

2. Legal abortions protect women's health.
Legal abortion not only protects women's lives, it also protects their health. For tens of thousands of women with heart disease, kidney disease, severe hypertension, sickle-cell anemia and severe diabetes, and other illnesses that can be life-threatening, the availability of legal abortion has helped avert serious medical complications that could have resulted from childbirth. Before legal abortion, such women's choices were limited to dangerous illegal abortion or dangerous childbirth.

3. A woman is more than a fetus.
Some people argue these days that a fetus is a "person" that is "indistinguishable from the rest of us" and that it deserves rights equal to women's. On this question there is a tremendous spectrum of religious, philosophical, scientific, and medical opinion. It's been argued for centuries. Fortunately, our society has recognized that each woman must be able to make this decision, based on her own conscience. To impose a law defining a fetus as a "person," granting it rights equal to or superior to a woman's — a thinking, feeling, conscious human being — is arrogant and absurd. It only serves to diminish women.

4. Being a mother is just one option for women.
Many hard battles have been fought to win political and economic equality for women. These gains will not be worth much if reproductive choice is denied. To be able to choose a safe, legal abortion makes many other options possible. Otherwise an accident or a rape can end a woman's economic and personal freedom.

5. Outlawing abortion is discriminatory.
Anti-abortion laws discriminate against low-income women, who are driven to dangerous self-induced or back-alley abortions. That is all they can afford. But the rich can travel wherever necessary to obtain a safe abortion.

6. Compulsory pregnancy laws are incompatible with a free society.
If there is any matter that is personal and private, then pregnancy is it. There can be no more extreme invasion of privacy than requiring a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. If government is permitted to compel a woman to bear a child, where will government stop? The concept is morally repugnant. It violates traditional American ideas of individual rights and freedoms.

7. Outlaw abortion, and more children will bear children.
Forty percent of 14-year-old girls will become pregnant before they turn 20. This could happen to your daughter or someone else close to you. Here are the critical questions: Should the penalty for lack of knowledge or even for a moment's carelessness be enforced pregnancy and childrearing? Or dangerous illegal abortion? Should we consign a teenager to a life sentence of joblessness, hopelessness, and dependency?

8. "Every child a wanted child."
If women are forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, the result is unwanted children. Everyone knows they are among society's most tragic cases, often uncared-for, unloved, brutalized, and abandoned. When they grow up, these children are often seriously disadvantaged, and sometimes inclined toward brutal behavior to others. This is not good for children, for families, or for the country. Children need love and families who want and will care for them.

9. Choice is good for families.
Even when precautions are taken, accidents can and do happen. For some families, this is not a problem. But for others, such an event can be catastrophic. An unintended pregnancy can increase tensions, disrupt stability, and push people below the line of economic survival. Family planning is the answer. All options must be open.

Answer 4

It's only considered murder if the unborn child is past the point where it is illegal to abort it. And it's considered a choice beforehand because men can choose to be a parent or not and women should also have that choice. Blessed be.

Answer 5

Presumably because the unborn embryo is not a part of, and does not belong to, the person who killed the pregnant woman.

Answer 6

A fetus feels no pain.
I'm sorry if you don't feel the same way.

The 'double murder' thing is because the murder is an act of hatred. Abortionists don't hate babies, they just feel a woman has the right to choose when or if at all if she wants to have a child.

Answer 7

I think that is a question that needs to be answered by congress! Is a baby that someone wants that much more important than a baby that 1 mother doesn't?

Answer 8

I agree that this is definitely a double standard. But in history, there have been way too many stacked against women. So I don't think it is too much to ask to have one stacked up against men.

In other words, if you can dish it out, you should be willing to take it.

Answer 9

the second part isnt a choice, it just happens. but you do choose to kill your unborn by taking birth control pills. i dont belive in doing that though

Answer 10

Because a woman has the right to her own body, and obviously if she is killed with child she chose to keep it.

Answer 11

Because you have a choice to kill your baby, but not really a choice to be killed with your baby.