• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    If a fetus isn’t a person, then there’s no victim. The potential of a victim isn’t the same as a victim. The intention for there to be a victim doesn’t even create a victim.

    Except this is precisely the opposite of the logic used if some third party causes the harm. If, say, a pregnant woman gets shot in a mugging gone wrong and her fetus dies as a consequence, were more than willing to count that as a homicide and for some reason this line of reasoning vanishes.

    It’s either a person or not, not whichever is more convenient to the mother in whatever situation occurs.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Personally, I wouldn’t be in favor of classifying that as a homicide, but would rather it be an aggravating factor attached to the crime of shooting the actual person.

      There is a cost, morally and emotionally, to a fetus dying, but it’s not a crime against the fetus but the mother.

      The existence of a law written in a way I disagree with doesn’t obligate me to agree with another one I disagree with.