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Should killing a pregnant woman be classified as a double homicide?


I know it is in many jurisdictions these days. Doesn't that mean that all abortions would be classified as a homicide?

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I think it should, yes. Doing so would not classify abortions as homicides.

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Yes; I also think it's splitting hairs if abortions aren't considered homicides. A life snuffed out is a life snuffed out.

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Only if abortion is also considered a homicide. Since it isn't, by the logic that fetus isn't a person, then that same logic must apply to all situations. But it may also depend on which month it is because abortions are usually only allowed up to x months.

Tldr; It depends on what we consider a person with human rights.

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Jesus. Do you need some more bait for that hook?

Let me ask YOU a question. Should a pregnant women getting shot in the head in a home invasion be compared to a woman who terminates a pregnancy following a rape?

Nothing is as simplistic as you are trying to make it.

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It should be legal.
I mean, honestly, does anyone even like women.

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You'd be forgiven for thinking they don't looking at some of these threads Laura.

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That sarcasm though.

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In Australia it isn't and it has resulted in particularly car accidents due to negligence and a pregnant woman losing her baby without any consequence to the guilty driver.

And I agree that it's abortion which makes it a hazy topic.

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