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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all an attempt by pro-lifers to establish that a fetus has the same rights as a person. Don't forget the pregnant Alabama woman who went to jail for getting in a fight and being shot by *someone else* . So-called "pro-lifers" want to be able to control every aspect of pregnant women's lives.[/quote]

People have been charged with homicide for killing a fetus or double homicide for killing a pregnant woman.  But then we want to say that any decision that a pregnant woman makes, whether legal or illegal, should be without consequence to herself.

It's possible to reconcile those positions but it's also very easy to see how other people cannot reconcile them.  Is a 15 week old fetus a person or not?  We want to say sometimes yes, sometimes no.  But different people see the line in different places in different circumstances.  It's definitely not a settled area, in courts or in our society.  [/quote]

A 15-week old fetus is NOT a person. It cannot survive outside the mother. That is not debatable. Men don't pay child support for a 15-week old fetus. We don't put it on our insurance plan or claim it on our taxes.

I don't see why this isn't an equal protection issue - a man and woman are both in possession of and doing meth, but the woman is charged with a crime against her fetus as well? [/quote]

To be clear, do you also object to charging someone with double homicide when they kill a woman who is 15 weeks pregnant?  Or do you agree in that case?  [/quote]

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