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Both. The mother and fetus. Unless the mother survives and the fetus doesn't.
Exactly. fetal homicide laws criminalize the killing of a fetus, not its mother.
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Either way, the act of killing is done by a third party (not a doctor selected by the mom), thus not the same as abortion. Fetal homicide is not abortion.
A doctor is a third party. And due to the 14th Amendment's Equal protection Clause, doctors are not immune to laws applied to everyone else that criminalize killing a fetus. You can't carve out an exception that allows some but not others to kill. That's unconstitutional.
The babies born into broken households can’t speak for themselves either. I don’t see you speaking for them or helping them once they’re out of the woman.
The babies born into broken households can’t speak for themselves either. I don’t see you speaking for them or helping them once they’re out of the woman.
Has it escaped your attention that people from broken households have thrived and excelled? Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, for example. Both became POTUS of a World Superpower.
Not always, and it's impossible to predict the exceptions.
The issue is violating Constitutional Rights: First Amendment, Religion, and the Rights of a protected class: National Origin.
If state laws banning FGM are allowed, then state laws restricting/banning abortion have to be allowed.
The exceptions are exactly why a woman should be able to make her own choice.
There is no violation of Constitutional Rights regarding FGM except in your imagination.
You would be laughed out of court if they even opened the door to you presenting such a case.
As of now in most places (U.S.), a woman has the right to choose whether or not to let her pregnancy come to term. A man doesn't. If a man wants the pregnancy to come to term, he can be overruled by the woman. However, if the man doesn't want to be a father, he still has to support the person born for 18 years, if the woman chooses to give birth.
So should a man have say in this? Is it fair that he can't opt out if he wishes?
Discuss!
On the face of it, no.
BUT...........if one goes around asking others to support their cause, to give donations, to vote for their candidate on these issues......then they do have a say.
Well, apparently women who decide to have abortions because of rape factor this in.
Interestingly, some studies have shown that male relatives of rapists and other sexual assaulters have a 40% increase in risk for engaging in the same type criminal behavior.
Maybe women don't want to risk raising a child that doesn't fall too far from the tree.
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