(June 20, 2014 at 8:38 am)Irrational Wrote:(June 20, 2014 at 8:06 am)Heywood Wrote: Negative Minimalist.
Fetuses are protected human beings under the law in many jurisdictions. Abortion is not murder because muder is the unlawful killing of another human being. Abortion is lawful so it is not technically murder. If you kill a fetus without the mothers consent you can be convicted of murder(because doing so is an unlawful killing of another human being). Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder in California of two human beings....one of which was the unborn child of Laci Peterson. There are several other instances of people being convicted of murder by assaulting pregnant women and causing them to miscarry.
So the mother's consent is what the law is based around in this regard. Fair enough.
But what does this have to do with the mother's choice to abort if she wishes to?
I was just disputing Minimalist's claim that fetuses are not human beings under the law.....they are. I'm still burnt out from the last abortion thread so I have no intention in getting into the nuts and bolts of this one.
