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June 16, 2005
In Maine It's Murder to Kill a Pregnant Woman, To Kill Her Child Is Apparently Legal
Maine Family Unhappy With Compromise on Unborn Victims Bill
Maine's legislators apparently compromised on the fact that killing a pregnant woman is a little more serious than killing a non-pregnant woman. They did not, however, add a second charge to killing the unborn child. You still can only be charged for the first murder, but the fact that the child died is only a consideration during sentencing.
This, however, goes to show that an unborn child is something of consequence to people not simply a blob of cells. No one minds getting warts lasered off (another type of cell blobs) but when you kill an unborn child it somehow makes a murder worse...
If life didn't start until birth, then why do so many people support punishing people who criminally attack pregnant woman and injure the child (despite the fact in this case they don't recognize a second charge)?
Posted by John Bambenek at June 16, 2005 3:13 PM
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