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You're ignoring the core requirement of virtually every criminal proceeding: Intent.
You are ignoring virtually everything I posted.
The father of 1-year-old twins who died Friday after the police said he had left them in a hot car was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide
Not one word about intent when that father was charged.
Because you're comparing apples and bowling balls. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that you don't leave children in a hot car. While it was not his intent to kill his children, he was criminally negligent - hence the associated charge and the charge of MANSLAUGHTER, not murder.
Same goes for your "1 week fetus" claim. You said it yourself: the woman probably wouldn't even know she was pregnant. We do not hold people criminally responsible in such scenarios.
The conclusion of your post is just feminazi ranting to try and justify killing your own offspring and isn't worth dignifying with a response.
Hey you were the one who lied and said that intent was 'a core requirement'- and I pointed out that the exact example I posted showed intent is not necessary.
Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant
This is the case of a pregnant woman who was shot during a fight with another woman- and she was charged with manslaughter by the government- because she should have known not to start the fight.
People v. Jorgensen
Here a pregnant woman was convicted of manslaughter when she accidentally caused a vehicle accident.
Women could get up to 30 years in prison for having a miscarriage under Georgia's harsh new abortion law
Jordan explained how a 1998 Georgia court case Hillman vs. State, prosecutors charged an 18-year old woman who shot herself in her abdomen while pregnant with attempting to "produce a miscarriage" — but a court threw out the indictment partly because they didn't want to supersede the legislature, which had then "refused to criminalize a pregnant woman's acts in securing an illegal abortion."
At the time, the Court of Appeals explicitly said that changing the law to prosecute women who performed their own abortions, which HB 481 does by defining fetuses as people, could warrant "a criminal indictment for virtually any perceived self-destructive behavior during her pregnancy which could cause a late-term miscarriage, to wit: smoking or drinking heavily; using illegal drugs or abusing legal medications; driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol; or any other dangerous or reckless conduct."
Hey you were the one who lied and said that intent was 'a core requirement'
Oh really?
You're ignoring the core requirement of virtually every criminal proceeding: Intent.
Definition of virtually
1: almost entirely : NEARLY
2: for all practical purposes
Read the entirety of my text next time, not just the parts you like.
That might have been relevant if:
a) the example I provided in my post specifically didn't require intent
b) the situation I was discussing- charging the woman for manslaughter or negligent homicide if she miscarries also does not require intent.
You posted that I was ignoring the 'core requirement of virtually every criminal proceeding'- but you were ignoring that every instance I was discussing has not requirement of intent.
Criminally negligent homicide never has an intent.
I'm not going to play semantic games with you. If you want to know my position on a specific scenario, just ask the question.
Do I think a woman, who knows she's pregnant but engages in negligent behavior that any reasonable person would know to be detrimental to the life of her unborn child, should be criminally charged? Yes.