This is interesting.
A teenager “allegedly” hired a man to beat her up so she could miscarry. The baby survived. The girl was charged with criminal solicitation to commit murder, and the beat-upper was charged with attempted murder. (Source)
Murder?
Let me see if I’m smart enough to follow this. If I hire someone to beat my baby to death, in utero, I could be charged with murder if the baby dies. But if I hire an infanticide “doctor” to crush my baby to death (or tear him limb from limb, if you prefer), in utero, I’m off the hook.
I always thought if a woman didn’t want “it,” then it wasn’t considered a human being worthy of life. Apparently, the little masochist didn’t want it so she tried to get someone to kill it. Why is she being criminally charged? And how can he be charged with attempting to murder something she didn’t want? Abortionists do it all the time. Oh…give me a second…I get it now. An abortionist is licensed to practice the “medicine” of murdering babies, and any Joe Blow off the street is not.
I see the distinction.
