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Quote by: gela  If I deliberately drop a brick of the side of a building, with no intention of hitting anyone, but by some freak coincidence someone gets hit by the brick - I will be charged with manslaughter.
If killing fetuses intentionally is murder, then killing fetuses unintentionally is manslaughter. | This is a much different example. Again, I said intention cannot be the only requirement to judge and neither can consequences.
It does not follow that what you are saying is true. Throwing a brick off a building is a different scenario than abortion. Thought experiments like this do not work. I pretty sure people can see the difference between throwing a brick off a building and unintentionally killing a fetus. But even unintentionally killing a fetus my be manslaughter in certain situations. My point is that situations are what must be judges not general cases.
"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |