Is this a double standard? Why is one completely legal and the other murder? Should causing a pregnant women to lose her baby simply be assualt?
Or does pro-choice actually mean the right of a mother to determine for herself when to alot certain rights to her unborn child?
2006-12-28 06:01:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Soooo.... no one is going to actually address the obvious double standard in the law.
2006-12-28 06:08:40 · update #1
The double standard doesn't tell you which one is wrong (both are wrong). It shows that the U.S. government either affords the right to life of an unborn child or denies it based on the mother's decision.
2006-12-28 06:12:11 · update #2
Punching anyone, pregnant or not, is an assault. If you are doing it to cause the death of an unborn fetus, that is legally murder. Abortion is legal in most states and most nations up to a particular time, as in the first trimester of pregnancy. It is a medical procedure that many do consider murder, but legally it is not murder. This is not a double standard. One is a matter of legally justified killing. The other is not.
2006-12-28 06:08:33 · answer #1 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. This is something I could never figure out and I guess will be unanswered for ever. I think it all boils down to one question: "is the human life provided of soul or something that makes it sacred?" I can't answer that so I can't even answer if abortion should or shouldn't be allowed.
But I can say this. The people who are pro abortion obviously do not feel that there is a sanctity in human life, at least not for a small fetus, maybe a couple of months old. However, I am pretty sure that they would agree that at some point, this life becomes progressively more "important" and, thus, deserving of legal protection. (BTW, abortion of a 6 or month fetus IS not legal in anyplace I know of.) On the other hand, I have never heard of anyone being charged with murder if a pregnant woman is shot and her unborn baby is killed.
So where does all this leaves us. In the middle of ******* nowhere. Trying to make any sense out of this is hopeless, trying to dictate rules is evil.
2006-12-28 06:17:44 · answer #2 · answered by John Dull est 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Josh, the point of that law was to penalize further the murder of a pregnant woman, such as what happened to Lacey Petersen and define that it's, in effect, double murder.
Anyone who willingly attacks a pregnant woman gets what they deserve.
These issues really are not the same as abortion is a choice of an individual (which I'm against as I believe in the rights of the unborn).
The other is action by a third party for the act of doing harm.
2006-12-28 06:09:47 · answer #3 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The law allows a woman to have "Rights" over her body so if she chooses not to allow the fetus to grow in her body she can have "it" "removed". If she chooses to let the fetus grow in her that is also her right. Someone hitting her ( Man or Woman) and causing her to loose the child has taken that right away from her. As far as I am concerned abortion is murder period, whether the mother chooses it or not. If you leave the fetus alone, it will usually grow into a full term baby then after birth into a full grown adult. I very strongly disagree with the law and I feel that at conception the "fetus" is a person in his/her own right and NOBODY should be allowed to kill him/her.
2006-12-28 06:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by BetteBoop 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes pro-choice does mean the mother has the right over her body and "any thing" in it. So if she was punched in the stomach, somebody besides herself took control or her body.
I believe causing a woman to loose her baby is murder. Then again I also think abortion is murder also.
There is a double standard as things stand in the law today. I believe it is because people believe their bodies belong to themselves, when in reality we and our bodies belong to God.
(I think I'm going to hear it over this one!)
2006-12-28 07:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the baby is unwanted and a girl has an abortion then yes it is legal.
But if somebody walks up to a lady that is happily pregnant and punches her, kills her baby, then yes that would be murder and assault.
I am pro choice.
Abortion is a sad thing, but there are many different kind of circumstaces.
2006-12-28 06:13:39 · answer #6 · answered by Megz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rights belong to the BORN.
The distinction here is that when a pregnant woman who WANTS the fetus to come to term is assaulted and loses it, hse has been deprived of her coice and her rights have been violated. If she ges an abortion, it is her coice. Not YOURS!
By the way, the Bible covers the matter of a pregnant woman who gets assaulted and loses the fetus. The offender must pay a fine! How does this support your "abortion is murder" theory? The offender does not give "life for life"-- in the Bible, the fetus is not reaqlly alive until it takes the breath of life. "And God breathed into man, and he became a living soul". THEN.
2006-12-28 06:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Why interior the international would you punch a pregnate female interior the tummy? i do not position self belief in abortion have had 3 little ones of my personal, yet in case you kill a wanted toddler definite that's homicide! The bible says anybody pays for all killed little ones. All women human beings have a good to make certain to save or now to not save their toddler and no one else might want to be able to take that from you not even the daddy of the toddler and under no circumstances all of us else that is going to punch you!
2016-12-01 06:37:36 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can we have more details? Did the woman getting punched in her "baby maker (lol)" decide to carry her child to term, and how far along is this woman who lost her child to a piece of scum who hits women? It seems as though there is a problem here understanding a women's body is not the property of the government, or of anyone but herself. I am glad though that the USSC understands it.
2006-12-28 06:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Is a double standard. I don't agree with that law that if you kill a pregnant woman you get charged with double murder.
2006-12-28 14:12:46 · answer #10 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋