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Re: So, is miscarriage murder?
by DBuss

How often do you believe that a miscarriage is the woman's fault?

You are the one who wants to treat fetuses as people, well, we investigate the deaths of people.

To answer your question, if the woman drank or smoked or used drugs, that increases her chances of miscarriage. Legally I'd think that would be enough.

And at the moment abortion is legal. If you are successful at criminalizing it, you should expect that women will *still* have them, just illegally. They will then claim they had miscarriages.

You said "decade in prison or the death penalty" and I think you were talking about women who had abortions on purpose in that part of your post, but I might have misunderstood you.

You're still dodging the question. When you make abortion illegal, what will you do with the women who have one anyway?

Just saying you don't want to put them in prison for life isn't an answer. Does that mean you're good with "just" 10 years, or does that mean you want to let them go?

But I'm not sure how you can really know what a person believes on something like this.

This is why we'd need an investigation.

That doesn't mean that I don't really believe... that the unborn are persons.

Sure it does. Murder is murder, and needs lots of jail time. Abortion doesn't hit your radar as needing the same penalty because it doesn't hit your radar as being the same thing.

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