Wait On That Abortion

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Mike

Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant, or the unborn child of any such enumerated person, if there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being

There's the catch (possibly). Help me out here, I thought I remembered elsewhere legal abortion providers being exempt from the justifiable homicide, but I must be missing it here (and I had my coffee)

Abortion is not a felony. This bill in no way makes it justifiable to murder an abortion doctor.

it specifically states If there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony

as its been explained by the writers of the bill, it only is for Illegal acts, like if your boyfriend doesnt want a baby and starts beating your pregnant stomach, the woman is justified in killing the boyfriend.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Abortion is not a felony. This bill in no way makes it justifiable to murder an abortion doctor.

it specifically states If there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony

as its been explained by the writers of the bill, it only is for Illegal acts, like if your boyfriend doesnt want a baby and starts beating your pregnant stomach, the woman is justified in killing the boyfriend.

I can agree with that. A lot of these guys, especially the vaunted athletes, should be finished for kicking and punching their pregnant girlfriends in the stomache

[Mike]

design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being

[Mike]

Is that the catch?

[Mike]

Are we going to have a new legal debate in some states as to whether a legal abortion can or does cause great personal injury?

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Mike

Are we going to have a new legal debate in some states as to whether a legal abortion can or does cause great personal injury?

isnt it the womans choice to have an abortion?

I dont think anyone is forced to have an abortion.

Roe vs Wade makes this south dakota think moot. especially since Federal law trumps state law. though i dont think there is anything in the state law that makes it legal to kill abortion doctors.

[Mike]

I think the whole thing is much ado about nothing. I got the article on a newsfeed on my Facebook rewgarding the Tea Party's designs to set back the rights and progress of women in this country-not sure I'm buying this inclusion. As always, I'll ask my liberal friends who may be taking the headlines at face value to explain the bill to me

Probably best for me to move on, I stopped coming into this Politics section a few years back, this conversation seems quite civil, however.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Mike

design to commit a felony, or to do some great personal injury, and imminent danger of such design being

In the lawful defense of said person

If a woman is choosing to have a legal abortion... is killing the doctor in lawful defense?


The only way I could see this bill giving the green light to offing abortion docs is if abortion was illegal.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

as its been explained by the writers of the bill, it only is for Illegal acts, like if your boyfriend doesnt want a baby and starts beating your pregnant stomach, the woman is justified in killing the boyfriend.

If the situation is reversed, and the boyfriend wants the baby but the woman doesn't, the boyfriend (would-be father) has the option of not driving his girlfriend to the abortion clinic. So much for the equality of male/female parenthood.

You're correct in that a currently legal act cannot be a felony of course. At least not at the same level of law. Federally legal may or may not have a bearing on the State, County or Local definitions. The law is peculiar that way. You can try a guy for murder (like O.J), find him innocent of the murder, but yet win a wrongful death civil lawsuit for the same set of events you found him innocent of criminally.