February 21, 2005
EVEN IF THE KID WAS FRENCH HE WAS A HUMAN BEING:
French unborn death 'not a crime' (BBC, 2/17/05)
A French appeals court has ruled that a man responsible for the death of a pregnant woman in a car accident was not guilty of a double crime.Posted by Orrin Judd at February 21, 2005 4:49 PMFlorinda Braganca was killed instantly when the car she was driving was struck by 30-year-old Kevin Germon's van on a motorway in October 2003.
Her husband said Germon should be sentenced for double manslaughter.
But the court upheld a lower court ruling that an unborn child could not be considered the victim of a crime.
Comments
This kind of injustice is the sort that the law permitting abortion, inherently denying the fetus' personhood, will create. Not even Prof. Handcock, the author of 'The Fallacy of the Misapplied Category' in Yale Law Journal could worm his way out of this one.
Posted by: Bart at February 22, 2005 8:20 AM