Hillary: An Unborn Child Hours Before Delivery Has No Constitutional Rights

[Benton]

(07-30-2016, 10:15 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: But it's a living person that is just still in the mother.

It doesn't need to be in the mother anymore, so how does it not have the right to live?  

to the first, no, in a legal definition, it isn't a person yet. I'm not debating the right or wrong of it, I'm just pointing out the legality of it. And that's if it's not born yet, it's not a person yet.

the second part, that's the difficult part of a legal definition. No two cases are the same. One baby taken at six weeks to go might be fine, another might not make the premature birth. That makes it difficult to set a date when you confer rights ("hey, she's 22 weeks along, the fetus now qualifies for social security!"). And laws, for the most part, are about uniformity in the way things are done.