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If precedence is used in courts in the USA?

Why does a man get charged for a double homicide for killing a pregnant woman, but abortion is not considered murder?

In common law legal systems, a precedent or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court or other judicial body utilizes when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts.

are unborn children only counted as human if the mother wants to have them?

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  • Pfo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Yes, unborn children are only accounted for if the mother doesn't want them.

    It's quite the disjointed bit of legal logic, when concerning the subject of an unborn child being killed, sometimes it is murder, other times it is not.

  • It is not a double homicide if a man kills a woman just a few weeks pregnant. In the RARE occasions when the charge has been used, it was for woman very close to giving birth, a time long after an abortion would be legal.

  • 1 decade ago

    ABORTION IS MURDER!!!!! I don't believe that abortion is ok for any reason. Adoption is always the best alternative.

    Source(s): Personal Opinion
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