If fetuses are not people and do not deserve legal protection, why can you still be charged with killing an unborn baby?

The point of making unborn children victims of crime is to destroy the logic of the pro-choice position within the legal system. It makes no sense for a pro-choice person to agree with these kinds of feticide laws because fetuses aren't persons, therefore, they should have no rights or legal protections under our law. If the unborn child can be a victim of crime then how is abortion itself not considered a form of homicide? The unborn dies due to the abortion. Can it not then be argued that an abortionist committed feticide? Or is abortion a form of legal self-defence in the mind of pro-choicers?... Nonetheless, the point is this law brings up the issue of abortion. Pro-choicers who agree with these laws bite themselves in the foot. By doing that, we can slowly make it illegal.

People keep asking this same question over and over. Do a Yahoo Answers search to see previous answers.

Nevertheless, the presumption should be that the woman would have carried the pregnancy to term, notwithstanding any contrary evidence because the decision is hers and she could have changed her mind at the last minute.

While states differ in their interpretation and application of the concept in the killing of a pregnant woman, I believe that the correct interpretation is that, but for the act of the killing of the pregnant woman, she would have delivered a child and therefore it is a double homicide.

The pregnant woman was probably more than 24 weeks along.

That is considered the legal limit for calling a pregnancy viable.

No great mystery there.

The woman has the right to choose.

That means that if she chooses to let her pregnancy come to term, then it is assumed, very much in accordance with the logic of pro-choicers, that the natural state of being of a living thing growing from its conception to its eventual death (many many decades after birth) is the process of human life that has begun and is in process. Cutting that process short is murder.

But if the woman chooses to abort, then it is not a life, and there is no process of development into a "baby" (officially) and then on into other stages of humanity because the destiny of the fetus is to perish as per the will of the mother. Allow me to reiterate: Her choice alters the definition of life because it alters destiny.

A fetus in the womb of a human female is a human fetus, but not a human being until birth. In the case that you sited, the mother had planned to give birth. It was not her 'choice' for someone to shoot her and therefore her 'baby' died in utero. . I think states have different laws about this.

* Unarmed human beings handcuffed and shackled in the back of police cars are tazed to death and no one is charged. They are being killed but some that scream murder of a fetus, but condones that as early and often as possible.What can I say?

Get a vasectomy and stop trying to interfere in women's reproductive decisions.

Liberals can not answer that question.

They are people. Nobody disputes that.

lol, OLD question

just ignore a women's choice and and CONSTITUTIONAL right to privacy while your at it...