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Wanded posted...

if i drive in a car at night and see something enter the road right in front of me, might be a human, might be a dog or some other animal, might just be something the wind moved, isn't the only correct choice to stop the car?

I'm gonna stop you right there. There's no way that a court ruling about when life begins can not conflict with religious/personal viewpoints. Let's assume a person attacks a pregnant woman and stabs her in the belly killing the baby but the woman survives. Is the attacker guilty of murder/homicide/whatever? If a court rules that life begins at birth and not before than the attacker is not guilty even if the mother was eagerly awaiting the delivery of her baby. If it rules that it begins earlier then at what point does it become 'alive' and could the attacker be found guilty of murder if they didn't even know the woman was pregnant because it was so early on? There's a lot of questions and it shouldn't be answered by the courts especially if the answer comes about not through an examination of morality, spirituality, or whatever and, instead, because of party propaganda.

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