Gardener1850
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idk how they will charge him in the baby's death if current MD law indicates the fetus be viable, although he certainly deserves it.
Agreed. I really wish the law only required knowledge of pregnancy or intent to end pregnancy. It seems like it encourages a person wanting to end a pregnancy to kill early in the pregnancy the way it is written. Does not seem like good policy to me.
I think its slippery slope because if they word it to include first trimester / non viable, then you have the challenges to roe v. wade. just stating why I think they may write laws that way.
They may not be able to charge murder of the baby but could they go for another, lesser, offense related to the pregnancy? If this was a case where he only successfully killed the fetus at 4 months (against mom's will), there must be something they would be able to charge him with for that, right? What would those charges be?