Republicans trying to use Peterson Murder case to get Fetus rights

DannyMay · May 18, 2003

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3032239.stm

DannyMay · May 18, 2003

Women are such hypocrites. If the mother killed that baby, it would be womens rights. Now they are screaming like crazy saying he should get executed for killing a poor defenseless baby. I hope these republicans get this measure passed. Its a baby - not a choice.

I would use that old saying "you can't have it both ways", but women do get it both ways.

lander · May 18, 2003

I have a solution ...
.. you don't want a kid then keep your legs closed.

Otherwise, deal with it like responsible people do.

Oceans11 · May 18, 2003

I have no particular opinion on this matter which I know is highly polarised in the USA.

However I am surprised at the numbers involved.

With a guesstimate using legal abortion numbers, it looks like 10-20 million Americans alone, have ceased to exist in the last decade.

http://www.sandh.com/keyes/deaths.htm

More recent data shows about 20% of all new pregnancies being aborted. Thats a lot of bodies.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5109a1.htm

[This message was edited by eek on May 18, 2003 at 08:06 PM.]

kayaman+ · May 19, 2003

Whatever your moral stand on this issue (personally I'm against abortion), it's more than clear that making it illegal is just silly. It goes on either way, but when it's illegal dirty doctors get rich and women get hurt. I can't believe that in the modern day we still don't get that, but then again we continue to wage our unwinable war on drugs too.