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Fetal Rights=Discrimination Against Men
Hello Ladies,
I wanted to pose this question to get some opinion's on an issue I just finished discussing with some friends of mine. This is the thing, I'm sure you all have heard of Lacy and Connor's law, also known as the Unborn Victims of Violence(Fetal Homocide) law.
I'm sure some of you have probably discussed it, but I just got an opinion on it that quite frankly made me wonder.
My friend argues that this law discriminates against men. His argument is that if you kill a woman, who may not know she's pregnant herself, let alone you as the attacker, and you are charged with two murders; this penalizes men because they can't get pregnant, making the life of a woman more valuable than that of a man.
I told him, it has nothing do with the life of the man nor the woman, the law simply considers the fetus to have a life as well. Regardless of your opinion on the law, that is what it states. So, how is this discriminatory against men? Should the fetus be considered non-living because a man can't carry it, therefore giving it the status of life is unequal protection under the law?
What are your thoughts?
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