MacDonald: Personhood Precedent

There are and have been cases where a pregnant mother is killed, and both deaths are litigated as wrongful deaths.

Laws exist to that end, and we have one here in New Hampshire (Fetal Homicide Statute). But a case in New Mexico appears to be the first of its kind.

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The estate of a 26-week-old aborted child has collected $200,000 in a New Mexico wrongful-death settlement, in what attorneys on the case call the first payout of its kind to an aborted baby treated as a person under state law. …

The complaint described the child as a "26-week-old viable fetus" and a "person" under New Mexico's Wrongful Death Act, "entitled to equal protection under the law of New Mexico and the United States." The suit alleged the mother was under the influence of methamphetamine when she went to the abortion center and therefore could not give valid informed consent.

We don't know if the mother was "intoxicated" when she was impregnated, but, as you know, that would have been a #MeToo moment. Even if she'd consented at the time, the post-coital walk of shame has no shelf life on regret for angry liberal chicks. You can sue decades later, especially if the alleged perp is a Republican in office or running for office.

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