What I learned trying to classify abortion access across the rich world

Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by rayiner on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:47PM (#32147328)

In my county a woman was charged with first degree murder last year for abandoning her baby to die: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/anne-arundel-glen-bur...

Criminal laws exist in part to express society’s moral norms. Abandoning babies to die isn’t illegal because it’s a widespread problem. It’s illegal because it’s wrong.

But if your point is that the Venn Diagram intersection between pro-choicers and folks who want to decriminalize infanticide is not a null set you’ve made it.

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Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by wizofaus on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @05:06AM (#32149183)

Charged with attempted first degree murder. But thanks for the link. And while I accept laws do exist to enforce societal norms, if the effect of those laws is to make matters worse, they're still bad laws.

I can't say I have a strong position on infanticide. There are undoubtedly cut and dried cases where an adult deliberately terminates the life of a newborn baby that should be classified as criminal acts. Abandoning your own child probably deserves a separate legal classification.

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