Wait On That Abortion

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

Plenty of sane, rational lawyers - political persuasion immaterial - say it opens a wide hole to do exactly that.

Clearly a husband could murder the doctor performing an abortion on his wife.

not according to this law or the law of the land. I think its quite easy to see, even if the wording might be a small bit confusing. They are clearly protecting a pregnant woman or her relative from prosecution if they kill someone who is attacking her womb illegally.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

not according to this law or the law of the land. I think its quite easy to see, even if the wording might be a small bit confusing. They are clearly protecting a pregnant woman or her relative from prosecution if they kill someone who is attacking her womb illegally.

?? The wording isn't confusing at all - it says right there, the husband can kill someone trying to harm his wifes baby.

It doesn't limit in any way who that person could be.

The point is indeed that the intended consequences of a law are not presumed to be the only possible consequences, dependent upon the wording.

In other words, you write a law to do one thing, but there is very frequently unintended (or indeed intended) consequences that are permitted by the wording.

Again - why is this change being added to the current law? Hum?

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

?? The wording isn't confusing at all - it says right there, the husband can kill someone trying to harm his wifes baby.

Again - why is this change being added to the current law? Hum?

yes on the first statement but they can not legally, according to this law, murder laws, roe vs wade, etc, murder an abortion doctor and recieve no punishment! The husband can kill an armed robber who shoots his wife in the stomach therefor killing his unborn baby.

and i believe it is added to the current law to protect a woman from prosecution if someone beats or harms her womb in an illegal manner. currently the law does not protect someone who kills because they fear for the life of their unborn child.

if abortion was Illegal, than I can see people thinking "okay we can justify killing an abortion doctor". than again, if abortion was illegal, in theory, there would not be abortion doctors.