Let us review some of the facts in your story of Aug. 16, entitled “Man charged in attempt on life of girlfriend’s fetus.”
First, the attempt on the life of the fetus, identified as “the woman’s unborn child,” is apparently a violation of the law (“intentional homicide of an unborn child”). Second, this charge, intentional homicide of an unborn child, is a “very rare” charge and “specifically exempts abortion.”
Okay, to summarize, it is a “fetus” unless the mother wants to keep it, in which case it becomes “an unborn child.” Killing the “fetus” is legal but killing the “unborn child” is illegal. Do I have this right?
Does what is inside a woman’s womb change based on her desire to be pregnant or not to be pregnant? Is the biological makeup of a “fetus” different than that of an “unborn child”?
Isn’t it that our society has reached the sad point when it can acknowledge, in one rare case, the humanity of the unborn and its right to legal protection but go on daily, in thousands of other cases, to knowingly deny its humanity and provide for legal slaughter?
