Sentences with phrase «abortion as homicide»
Later, he expounded, «I'm torn on capital punishment generally; but treating abortion as homicide means what it means.»
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Ryan and Akin cosponsored a «personhood» bill that would not only prohibit rape survivors from seeking an abortion, but would likely treat terminating a pregnancy that results from rape as a homicide crime.
And courts in liberal Massachusetts have held that viable fetuses can be treated as persons in homicide cases — yet abortion rights remain perfectly secure there, and in 35 other states with similar laws.
Islamic law permits abortion in cases of medical necessity (where the mother's life is in jeopardy) until 120 days in utero, at which point it regards the fetus as «ensouled» and abortion becomes homicide.