I have a can of worms sitting on my desk that I thought I would open.

In today's Denver Post there is a story by Paul Nowell from the Associated
Press.  The story concerns a former CU football player and former NFL
player, Rae Carruth, who, in Charlotte, N.C., is accused of shooting his
pregnant girlfriend 4 times.  The girlfriend died one month later, but they
delivered her unborn child by c-section and the baby now lives with the
girlfriend's mother.

Here's the kicker.  Mr. Carruth is charged with, get this, conspiracy to
commit murder, firing into an occupied vehicle and using an instrument to
destroy an unborn child.

The last charge is the one that gets me.  Every day, all across this
country there are hundreds of cases where someone is guilty of "using an
instrument to destroy an unborn child".  Why aren't these people charged of
this crime?  Is it because the mother of the "unborn child" was a willing
participant to them being "destroyed"?  Do they define "destroy"
differently in these cases?  Is it because it is not an "unborn child" but
rather a "thing" deserving being destroyed in the cases?


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