Accused Murderer spared abortion charge thanks to Cuomo new law

[Arjuna]

Prosecutors initially included a charge of abortion against the Queens man arrested Friday in his pregnant girlfriend’s murder — but rescinded it because of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new Reproductive Health Act.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown sent out a press release saying Anthony Hobson, 48, would be charged with second-degree abortion as well as murder in Sunday’s fatal stabbing of Jennifer Irigoyen, 35.

But a DA spokeswoman later told The Post that the abortion charge “was repealed by the Legislature, and this is the law as it exists today.”

The law removes abortion from the state’s criminal code and puts it into public health law.

Cuomo’s office did not comment on the murder case.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/08/accused-murderer-spared-abortion-charge-after-cuomos-new-law/

 

[prambo]

My, he's going for a high body count, isn't he.

The NYS motto should be changed to the following (from WRSA):?

"I for one welcome our new Moloch-worshipping, batshit-crazy vaginal overlords."

 

[SomeSoldier]

That didn't take long.

 

[Arjuna]

So apparently anyone can kill a fetus at any stage of its development and its legal. WTF is happening to this country?

 

[Grimscale]

would be charged with second-degree abortion

WTF??????
This was actually a Law?


The determination of whether or not to charge for the death of the unborn child in a case where the pregnant mother-to-be is murdered has never been a question. It is not the decision of someone, other than the mother-to-be, as to whether or not to terminate the pregnancy. Even if she was on her way to an abortion clinic and some mugger killed her and the baby, he should be charged with double homicide.
Why the hell are they complicating this stuff so much?

 

[Blimey]

WTF??????
This was actually a Law?


The determination of whether or not to charge for the death of the unborn child in a case where the pregnant mother-to-be is murdered has never been a question. It is not the decision of someone, other than the mother-to-be, as to whether or not to terminate the pregnancy. Even if she was on her way to an abortion clinic and some mugger killed her and the baby, he should be charged with double homicide.
Why the hell are they complicating this stuff so much?

You are right that is the law in many states. It's utterly absurd. Absolutely absurd. And in my view it brings to light a key hypocrisy in abortion law: that a fetus is a baby if the mother says it is, and it isn't if she says it isn't. As you said, a woman walking into an abortion office murdered will result in many states with a double homicide charge. This is ludicrous on its face and is only the result of a law trying to appease to mutually exclusive realities.

This thread raises an interesting question: is it so now that killing a woman's baby is no longer a crime? If she is beaten and loses a baby does the baby not increase the severity of the situation? Or if she's given a drug that does no harm except to kill a fetus, is that no longer a problem?