(06-26-2022, 04:00 PM)Snarl Wrote: Ending a life is an act of homicide. Dot at the end of that statement.
People have been charged with murder for killing an unborn baby. Dot at the end of that statement.
Exactly. Scott Peterson was found guilty of two murders for killing his pregnant wife - once charge for ending her life, the other for ending the life of her fetus. If killing that fetus was "murder" for Scott Peterson, would the same thing not also be murder for Dr. Zhivago down at the abortion clinic?
"Homicide" has three subdivisions, legally speaking - "justifiable homicide", "involuntary homicide", and "murder". "Murder" is defined in Oran's Dictionary of the Law as "the intentional ending of one human life by another human, without justification". "Justification" involves ending a threat to one's self or another, but it does not include "I just don't want this kid, it'll cramp my freewheeling lifestyle". So, if the pregnancy is a threat to the mother's life, I could see a legal termination. "Just because", not so much.
So far as I know, I've only ever known 3 women who ever had an abortion. Two of those 3 went to their graves with deep, scarring, regrets over it, years after the fact. The third I don't know about, as we have not spoken of it since the days of the event, even though she is still living.
None of those babies were mine, by the way - I'd have had a severely negative and quite possibly deadly reaction to it if they had been mine. I believe in Equal Rights, which also means I have as much say over the disposition of my own kids as their mother does. "Equality" does not flow in one direction only, else there is nothing "equal" about it. If anyone were to intentionally kill one of my kids, I would not rest until I had watched the light leave their own eyes, in person.
If a woman has a conscience, the abortion stands a very good chance of killing the soul of the mother every bit as dead as it kills the baby... and that is kinda tragic, even of it's just.
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Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
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