Double Homicide Overview

why is it double homocide if someone kills a pregnant person but abortion isn’t murder?


"The Unborn Victims Act 2004," also known as

"An Act To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes."


It isn’t always “double homicide” when somebody kills a fetus in the act of harming a pregnant person. Many places have such laws in place, and many don’t. Some places that do have “double homicide” laws in place apply if the fetus is at any point in gestation, some require the fetus to be 12+ weeks, and some even require the fetus to be halfway developed or more (which is usually after state term limits for a legal, non-lifesaving abortion). In some places, people have to prove that they intended to take that pregnancy to term. If we’re going to base our “abortion is murder” claims off of these laws, which ones do we choose for our qualifications?

There is one consistency with these laws in the country of USA. The consent of the pregnant person.

Harming a pregnant person and forcing them to miscarry isn’t wrong because “killing a fetus is murder,” it’s wrong because:

1. you’re assaulting/killing a f*****g pregnant person

and

2. you’re forcing a person to miscarry without their consent, if they survive your assault. Forcing a person to abort or miscarry without their consent is just as wrong as denying someone an abortion and forcing them to carry a pregnancy to term.

Say it with me now... Bodily Autonomy.


Since "The Unborn Victims Act 2004," (also known as "An Act To amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes,") came into effect in 2004, there has been 5,200 incidents of pregnant women being assaulted and/or mudered resulting in the death, stillbirth or spontaneous abortion/miscarriage of a pregnancy in the United States of America. How many successful cases of "double homicide" or The Unborn Victims Act have passed in court?

Five.

Five out of 5,200 violations of bodily autonomy. That is 0.096% of assaults and the murder of pregnant people have been deemed to be "double homicide.


I shall let that sink in.

I’d also like to remind you that after car accidents, murder is the second leading (injury related) cause of death for pregnant people. Pregnant people are more likely to be subject to domestic violence and homicide. Should we really be pretending that the laws in place to protect them and further punish their killers are about embryonic personhood?


The unborn victims act specifically EXCLUDES ABORTIONS.


https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/1997

Became law April 1, 2004