When do you become a human being?

[GMDino]

(07-31-2018, 10:09 AM)michaelsean Wrote: The people who don’t believe in birth control (generally Catholics) think a miscarriage is manslaughter?  I’m missing the connection.

This is an old debate...and one that will inevitably get this thread off the rails...but a small group wants/wanted every miscarriage investigated to make sure the female did not "do something" to cause it.  In which case she would be charged with something.  Ostensibly it was meant to cover drug use while pregnant...but the fear was it would force a woman who had a miscarriage the added stress and emotional toll of being investigated by the police.

From the link:

Quote:...in 2014, Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin claimed to have identified over 380 cases where women faced criminal charges for miscarrying –with the charges ranging from "attempted fetal homicide" for falling down the stairs to "second-degree murder" for a spontaneous miscarriage in the first trimester.

Sometimes the charges are more for how a body was disposed of rather than the miscarriage itself.