Murder is Murder

As has been reported by WIBC and Taking Down Words, State Representative Mike Murphy and Senator Jim Merritt plan to introduce a bill in the 2009 legislative session to eliminate the viability standard from the state statute, elevating the murder of an unborn child to the crime of murder. The push for such legislation comes as a result of the shooting of Huntington Bank teller Katherin Shuffield. She was wounded during a bank robbery and later lost her five month old twins.

Here is what Taking Down Words (blog closely tied to the State Democratic Party) has to say:

Did Eric Miller take a vaycay? It certainly seems like this would have prompted him to crawl out of the woodwork. For those of you living under a rock, mom-to-be Katherin Shuffield was shot in the stomach while she was simply doing her job as a bank teller on April 22. Days later, her twins died at five months gestation, two months shy of the point required by Indiana law to bring forth a murder charge.

Where's the love??  Come on Taking Down Words, you must not have attended many committee hearings on pro-life bills lately.  I'm always there.  What am I, chopped liver?  :)

Taking Down Words goes on to say:

So, how many legislators do you think will file similar bills criminalizing the murder of an unborn fetus in any circumstance?

It's interesting to me that they admit that killing an unborn "fetus" is murder, yet they are still supportive of it as long as a doctor does the dirty work with a scalpel rather than a gun. 

Comments

[J.D.]

I noticed a lot of people at the law school, people who proudly support pro-abort candidates and causes, simply outraged that the there was no crime for the murder of these children. I think that is simply another indication that these people have blinders on.