However, I don't understand how a person can drive irresponsibly, kill a person, and get charged with 'manslaughter', yet a woman can act irresponsibly,kill her unborn child, and be charged with 'murder'.
Leanne XXX (who has lost too many friends on the roads to irresponsible drivers).
Anglodutch NTL Account wrote:
Women who choose to have their babies "killed" do so at a time when the fetus is not yet viable. If this woman had had an abortion at 32 weeks she would equally have been charged... While I do not like the idea of abortion, and I abhor the casual way some women seem to use it as an alternative method of birth control or use it for the slightest excuse, I do accept a woman's right to the choice of having an abortion. Using drugs on the other hand, to the extent that the baby had enough drugs in its body to kill two adults, is completely irresponsible and, in my view, not equal to having an abortion. I hope it will indeed serve to deter other women from using illegal drugs in pregnancy.
Claudia.
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