At 22:20 21-12-00 -0600, you wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> > I don't know what the precise *legal* definition is: it just struck
> > me that a law outlawing "abortion" could, if the medical definition
> > were used, make naturally-occurring spontaneous abortions (later-term
> > "miscarriages") illegal, too, though it escapes me who could be
> > charged with the crime.
>
>Well, if you induced a later-term miscarriage by injuring the mother, I
>think everyone involved should be able to go after you for manslaughter &
>civil damages. (And I think that someone has already been convicted of
>manslaughter under these circumstances somewhere. I could be wrong,
>though.)
>
> Julia
That's why I specified "naturally occurring" . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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