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This has to be the most bass-ackward "logic" I've ever tried to understand. From the AP:
foxnews.com
A 19-year-old accused of causing his teenage girlfriend to miscarry two fetuses by stepping on her stomach was convicted Monday of two counts of murder.
Gerardo Flores (search) received an automatic life sentence because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, which was available under the state's 2003 fetus protection law (search).
Erica Basoria, 17, acknowledged asking Flores to help end her pregnancy; she could not be prosecuted because of her legal right to abortion.
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Basoria told authorities that, after about four months of pregnancy, she regretted not getting an abortion and started jogging and hitting herself to induce a miscarriage. When her efforts failed, she said she asked her boyfriend to help.
HUH?!? Let me get this straight: A guy can be convicted of murder for inducing his girlfriend's abortion, but the woman can't be because she has a "right to abortion"?
First of all, I'm glad this Gerardo Flores is going to jail for murder, but someone has to explain to me why it matters who actually induces the abortion. If we've come to the point where we've determined that a woman has a right to kill her own "fetus," it should hardly matter whether she uses a coat hanger, throws herself down a flight of stairs, or allows her boyfriend -- or the mailman, for that matter -- to do it.
I've never read anything that so clearly indicates the absurdity of the politicization of a "woman's right to choose." If we care so little about unborn human life that women can't be held accountable for intentionally ending it, let's stop pretending that anyone else should be. Disgusting. |
