If you kill a pregnant woman, should you receive a different prison sentence than if you kill a non-pregnant woman?
Suppose, as the new Oregon law dictates, you should indeed get a harsher sentence for killing the pregnant woman.
What does this mean?
Does it mean that the embryo-foetus-"child" within is a separate person you can murder, thus increasing your prison sentence? If that's the case, should women be tried for murder when they have miscarriages or abortions?
Does it mean that pregnant women are more worthy of protection by the law than are non-pregnant women and men? If that's the case, do we approve of this discrimination against the non-pregnant?
How could a law that sounds so reasonable start unraveling so quickly once exposed to a few questions?
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