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Originally Posted by Kappamd
Um, I don't think that just because the INTENT was an abortion, that this should not be considered murder. Every ethics class I've ever taken, including one that spent about 6 weeks debating the ethics of abortion, has taught me that even THE MOST LENIENT theories about when life begins say that it is at birth (well aside from some crazy theory that says we don't actually become human until age 2). This child was born, and then purposely left to die. =Murder to me.
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We don't know that the baby was actually alive for long. A precipitous delivery with no neonatal staff present to resuscitate a 23 week baby would result in a very quick death by the baby. That is poor planning and unfortunate, but not murder. Disposing of the baby in the manner described was abhorrent. Does some poor office worker in an abortion clinic deserve to go to prison for murder because of poor judgement? If the baby had been born then cut into a million pieces, then yes, it would be murder. The baby in question would have died even if the worker had called 911. No one would have been able to intubate and resuscitate a
a baby that premature on a standard EMS team.