Is An Unborn Child A Person

[Rick Duncan]

I'm not sure about Paul's ghost hypothetical, but what if in Arizona the legislature has enacted a fetal homicide law that makes it a crime for a 3d party (except an abortionist protected under Roe) to kill an unborn child? If an unborn child is a person for purposes of homicide laws that severely punish the child's murderer, is it unreasonable to argue that the unborn child is a passenger for purposes of the car-pool law?
   
  I suppose it would help Paul's ghost hypo in a similar way if Arizona had a  ghost homicide law? :-)
   
  Rick Duncan




  Rick Duncan 
Welpton Professor of Law 
University of Nebraska College of Law 
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
   
  
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