Posted by
TheRationalRight on Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:32:22 PM
A woman in her first trimester of pregnancy is driving to an Ob/Gyn appointment. At a stoplight, someone walks up to her car and shoots her in the head, killing her instantly.
Is the shooter guilty of one murder or two?
Roe vs. Wade effectively states that only a pregnant woman can determine whether the fetus inside her is a human life or a parasitic tumor. If she was on the way to a prenatal checkup to ensure that she and her fetus were healthy, she clearly thought of him or her as a baby human, which therefore should result in a double homicide charge. If she was on the way to have the fetus removed, she clearly thought of the fetus as a non-human mass, which therefore should not result in an additional homicide charge.
In both scenarios, the action committed by the shooter is the same. In both scenarios, the outcome of the action is the same as well. So how can one action that causes one outcome result in two possible consequences?
That just doesn’t seem right.