Thursday, May 09, 2013

Personhood in Ohio

The LA Times is reporting that Ariel Castro is facing murder charges for "terminating the pregnancies" of the women he had raped:

“Based on the facts, I fully intend to seek charges for each and every act of sexual violence, rape, each day of kidnapping, every felonious assault, all his attempted murders and each act of aggravated murder he committed by terminating pregnancies” during the years the women were held, McGinty said.


I expect that those women who are interested in abortion rights to object strenuously to these charges. Should these charges stick and if a jury convicts, then personhood for a fetus will have been legally established. Once that legal establishment is made abortion can and will be defined as murder.

Lets see if they figure this out.