Via Ipse Dixit, the Kentucky Supreme Court just overturned a 21-year decision that barred homicide charges against someone accused of killing a fetus. Murder or manslaughter charges may be brought if the fetus would have been viable outside the mother’s womb (approximately six or seven months into the pregnancy).
While this doesn’t apply to abortions (why, I don’t know, since lots of viable fetuses never see the light of day because of late-term abortions, but hey, that’s another thing altogether), it is a step forward in recognizing basic human rights (for instance, the right to, you know, live).
I’m always puzzled why, in our scientifically-educated society, so many of the educated are tripping over themselves to embrace what is basically a superstition (that a fetus may or may not be a human, but it’s not a person) instead of declaring from what we know from medical research on the fetal stage that indeed, if this is not human and a person, then cancer is caused by evil spirits and bloodletting can cure mental illness. Radical feminism is as primitive, and alluring, as your average cult. Then there’s the whole constitutional issue that the Court decided was just rhetorical, not binding.