Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!barry From: barry@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mikki Barry) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Inconsistency strikes again Message-ID: <3573@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 10:00:40 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3573 Posted: Wed Feb 6 10:00:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:20:28 EST References: <3367@alice.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 Remember, the man you mentioned is only being CHARGED with vehicular manslaughter. If the court goes by recent rulings in other states, he will be judged innocent on the basis that a fetus is NOT a human. Sure, the woman involved can seek civil damages, but the usual way of determining how much money you get for the loss of a child (note, I am NOT saying that the fetus was a child) is how much money that child would have made over its lifetime. It would be difficult to prove that the fetus would definitely have been even born, not to mention born completely healthy, so no determination can be made about how productive said fetus would/could have been. She might get bucks for pain and suffering. The reason the woman and doctor are not being prosecuted is that, thank the gods, abortion is still legal in this country. Mikki Barry