Read about the Ariel Castro kidnapping case in these links.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57583620/michelle-knight-told-cops-ariel-castro-threatened-to-kill-her-if-amanda-berrys-baby-died/
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0510/Could-Ariel-Castro-be-tried-for-murder-Case-would-be-unprecedented
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0510/Could-Ariel-Castro-be-tried-for-murder-Case-would-be-unprecedented
The prosecutor in this horrible case is about to stir up a
hornet’s nest. Ariel Castro stands
accused of kidnapping three women and holding them against their wills for ten
years. He repeatedly raped and
sexually abused all three, impregnating two of them. One of the women was impregnated five times. Castro ended each of the five
pregnancies by starving and beating the woman. One child, now six years old, was born to another of the
hostages.
Abortion and the question of when a fetus officially becomes
human are sharply divisive issues in the United States at this time. There are already arguments beginning
over whether Castro’s termination of the pregnancies constituted feticide or
homicide. If the killings are
declared to have been homicides, then Castro is eligible for the death penalty. But, if the killings are declared to
have been homicides, then the fetuses will have been declared to have been
human. Obviously, for supporters
of abortion rights, this just will not be acceptable.
This places the abortion supporters into a tight spot. Virtually everyone is agreed that
Castro’s crimes against the three women (they were still legally children when
he abducted them) are heinous and evil.
Abortion supporters may be forced into a corner where they have to
downplay the seriousness of some of Castro’s crimes. It is a corner of their own making.
This is, of course, a religious issue, but I believe that an
atheist could come to the same conclusion that I have: the killings of the
fetuses were murders.
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