When a murder kills a pregnant woman the crime is Two counts of murder, unless the unborn can be delivered and survives.
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This is a new phenomenon, of law created in the past decade. Fetuses, embryos, have never been conferred rights prior to then. When it happened, I wrote that it wouldn't be long before anti-choicers would be "pulling a Cheney", pointing to it as the basis to outlaw reproductive choice (that fetuses/embryos had rights) just as Cheney planted stories with journalists like Judith Miller at the NYT that Iraq had WMD and then go on Meet The Press and say, "Even the NYT is reporting that Iraq had WMD".
Chutzpah.
To support the idea that a 2-celled zygote can require a woman to provide her body as a life-support system, eliminating all of the woman's rights of sovereignty over her own body is the equivalent of bringing back slavery.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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