Suppose someone got into a car accident and was found to be going 10 miles over the speed limit: If they were pregnant and miscarried, under this standard, they could be charged with murder.

If you are into hypotheticals. Let’s imagine the driver in the third trimester of her pregnancy was intoxicated, really drunk and caused an accident where her toddler child who was in the passenger side front seat of the car and not in a child seat or seatbelt was ejected and killed and she also miscarried because of the accident. Did she not just kill two of her children. Who’s life was more precious the toddler or the unborn child. Doesn’t motherhood come with responsibilities regarding the children. Isn’t pregnancy the ultimate expression of motherhood.

The question becomes, when during the pregnancy does the mother’s responsibility to the child equal her self-interest. Is your answer, never? What about after the child is born? Is the child’s welfare never equal to the mother’s?

Isn’t it up to a jury to decide if the woman was responsible for a chain of events that lead to the death of her unborn child. Isn’t it up to the prosecutor to bring charges if there is reason to believe that was the case.

Yes, the society that made that fetus and unborn child is patriarchal but if it was matriarchal would it care less about its unborn children? I say it would care just as much about the children but it probably would value the mothers more than the patriarchal one. The problem with that patriarchal society is that it is also misogynist.

TEK