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first off, what is the big deal about the peterson case?
secondly, i do not think anything groundbreaking was introduced by charging peterson with double murder: i think it is pretty routine in murder cases where the victim was a pregnant woman. i way to going for a harsher sentence. you would think that is obvious.
third: i dont really see the inconsistency in all this---i am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the question of "personhood" for a fetus vs. the ability of a woman to control her own body has been the dividing line across which this matter has been fought out all along. this would explain why the question of viability has become so important legally.
the political correlate of all this is another fight over how the question of abortion should be framed.
the "hey i just noticed this...." move at the outset of this thread is obviously disengenous.
i would also expect to see more of this kind of foolishness from the anti-choice crowd over coming months. more "logic" covered by "hey what about this...?" moves to dismiss....
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