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And why should that be a manslaughter charge? It's a fucking fetus.
Because she's a meth addict and they've worked hard to ensure she'll be beneath empathy for many folks.
The article says she was at 16-17 weeks
Except addiction is a disease, injecting a pregnant person while they sleep is textbook assault. If the disease wasn't addiction would the mother still be culpable? What if a pregnant person has a disease but the treatment will cause a miscarriage. Just because she is/was an addict doesn't mean you can just write her off.
My jizz has a pretty good chance of surviving as a human too if met with an egg, but we don't charge people for cumming on a woman's back
I meant in general, not outside of the mother, but my point is that we don't have any obligation to create a human at any stage of the process. And we especially shouldn't have any obligation to succeed