On Thursday, a Senate committee in South Carolina voted to expand the state’s so-called “Stand Your Ground” law to approve the use of deadly force to protect a fetus. The proposal would grant pregnant women protection from prosecution if they were defending their “unborn children,” defined as “the offspring of human beings from conception until birth.” Granting more legal protections to fetuses, and defining life as beginning at conception, could end up threatening reproductive rights.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 01:11:22 +0000
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