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Originally posted by Spanky
2) If abortion is legal, for someone who kicks a woman in the stomach trying to terminate her pregnancy, can you only prosecute them for assault and battery?
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I don't understand why you find this to be such a difficult question. The issue is, who has the right to terminate the life?
I think that the courts were right to let Terry Schiavo's husband terminate her life. But, if someone had broken into the hospital and cut her head off, that person would, and should, be prosecuted for murder. Not for breaking and entering.
The legal, and moral, issue is to whom we give the rights to make such decisions. Scott Peterson had no right to terminate his unborn child's life. (And yes, I recognize the greater difficulty that would be present if, say, she had been on her way to the abortion clinic the morning he murdered her, but these sorts of law school hypos are not that helpful).
And now, I give up on ketching up from yesterday.
