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This might be a silly scenario/question, but it's been on my mind lately. If pro choice thinkers believe it's not a baby until it's born... should someone who punches a pregnant woman in the stomach causing a miscarriage get the same punishment as someone who punches a woman who isn't pregnant?

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Great question. I did some research and apparently some states consider it manslaughter and some "have no legal reason to prosecute". The following reads are from a case in Alabama where a woman is prosecuted for causing the death of a child during a DUI (https://www.fox10tv.com/news/elberta-woman-now-charged-with-manslaughter-in-death-unborn-baby/article_98e4db78-36bc-11e9-954b-e75cbda6b169.htmland ) the other is an illegal immigrant who caused the death of a child during a hit and run in Polk County Florida (https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/sheriff-cant-pursue-manslaughter-charge-after-crash-killed-unborn-child/67-0dd2ecf2-b6e4-429d-b760-715fd9cb1629 ). I feel involuntary/unintentional manslaughter would be an appropriate charge in the accidental miscarriage of an unborn child. This would carry a sentence of 10 to 16 months in jail which can be waived as time served in the event that the trial take time to occur.

So it becomes becomes tricky then, if a government makes abortion legal on the grounds that a unborn baby does not constitute a life then one can not be charged for manslaughter if they have caused a miscarriage or death of a unborn child. Nor can they call it death of an unborn because one needs be alive( a life) first die. Its hard tell a pregnant woman "sorry but what you have inside you is not alive". gets complicated.

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I ask the same question, regardless of pro choice or not we still need to come to an agreement is it a life or not ? Recently a pregnant woman in Australia was struck by a drunk driver and she lost the baby . It was late enough in the pregnancy that if the child was born prematurely it would of surivied. Is this manslaughter? apparently not because the law states that is not a life until it takes its first breath. Funny enough if the government found a fertilised egg on Mars it would be considered life on Mars.

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I've seen a man not be charged with DUI manslaughter on a fetus in one case only to see another one be charged with DUI manslaughter for a fetus. Only dif was the one not charged was from a wealthy politically connected family while the other wasn't. Both were in the same county and state and the accidents happened on the same highway.

Sounds like a double standard to me. There was an old saying from my younger days that may apply here: "Money talks, BS walks".

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