Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   What happens when a pregnant woman is murdered? Date:   1/31/2016 12:09:38 PM

Because someone twisted our legal system.  I doubt that someone who maurdered  a woman pregnant in her first trimester would be charged with a double homicide.  I think the reason is that during the first trimester, spontenous miscarriage is much more likely than a baby dying in the womb at the 2nd or 3rd trimester, which would require an induced labor. 

You know MM, you and I can argue this until the cows come home, but we are not going to agree.  I don't support abortion as a routine method of birth control, but I still think it is a woman's right to choose for all kinds a reasons.  I don't think it is as carefree decision as you would make it out to be.  I'm not in favor of second and third trimester abortions, but I think there are circumstances that should allow it as well.  I was raised Catholic and I understand the church's position on abortion; I respect their position, but I don't believe it is in touch with reality.  It isn't the only thing I disagree with the church about and therefore I no longer consider myself a practicing Catholic. 

I would love a world where all babies are conceived in love, and arrive healthy and are happily welcomed - and if not welcomed, put up for adoption to a loving family.  But that is not reality - there is rape and incest and birth control failures, and people that can't possibly afford another child; and people that aren't fit to be parents. There are babies that are mutilated and killed by mentally distubed parents, and babies that are born into abusive families where adoption wasn't even considered. There are people that take unwanted babies because they just want to boost their income as foster parents and don't give a damn about the child.