abortion is murder - it is the act of killing a human being without
malice or premeditation, it's just that the mother's body is killing
them
> From: Maureen
>
> At 09:15 AM 6/7/04, Phil wrote:
> > if somebody accidentally dies somebody under the
> >care of another, it's manslaughter
>
> No, it's an accidental death.
>
> Manslaughter requires that the act that results in the death be
> unlawful. In the case of a fetal death due to an unlawful
> act, either
> Manslaughter, as the case of several women charged because
> they took drugs
> during pregnancy, or Murder, as in the case of Scott Peterson, may
> apply. But a miscarriage due to no unlawful acts of the
> mother. would not
> fall under either heading, and neither would abortion, which
> at this time is legal.
>
> The anti choice lobbyists may yell murder till the cows come
> home, but
> legally, they are totally wrong
>
> From Webster: Manslaughter: The unlawful killing of a human
> being without
> malice or premeditation, either express or implied;
> distinguished from
> murder, which requires malicious intent.
>
> The distinctions between manslaughter and murder, consists in the
> following: In the former, though the act which occasions the death be
> unlawful, or likely to be attended with bodily mischief, yet
> the malice,
> either express or implied, which is the very essence of
> murder, is presumed to be wanting in manslaughter.
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