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bucolic_frolic

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8. How well will a murder charge fit the facts?

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Thu May 12, 2022, 04:37 PM

May 2022

For murder you need a motive. Will any mens rea fit? "I did this for my own benefit, for my own reasons, for my own person, to improve my future" is a puzzling fit to the motive for murder.

There are also facts. Weapon, body, person murdered. Any such cases will have a bit to overcome, and heads straight into the murky is a fetus a person?

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Louisiana debates murder charge for women who get abortions [View all] ificandream May 2022 OP

So 26 states will do this too n/t hibbing May 2022 #1

the NORTH won the civil war and will do it agin. Trueblue1968 May 2022 #2

Every GQP candidate should have this insanity tied SharonClark May 2022 #3

No wonder DownriverDem May 2022 #4

The Dogs That Caught the Car. -NT- ruet May 2022 #5

So the women with an ectopic pregnancy has a choice. Lonestarblue May 2022 #6

Wouldn't expert medical witnesses be able to explain life does not begin at conception? Lettuce Be May 2022 #7

How well will a murder charge fit the facts? bucolic_frolic May 2022 #8

This cocky ignorant bunch doesn't think Republicans get any of the M of abortions each year? Brainfodder May 2022 #9

If this goes down per the Supremes MOMFUDSKI May 2022 #12

Which would create the very real scenario of rapists getting off scot-free, tanyev May 2022 #10

Insanity. LudwigPastorius May 2022 #11

They're really, really overplaying their hands tishaLA May 2022 #13

Given the objections from the Catholic Church, I would hope not. ificandream May 2022 #16

Fanaticism is truly ugly. I present to you the Ayatollah McCormick & his fatwa against women. Hekate May 2022 #14

All this was predicted years ago... Grins May 2022 #15

It is issues like this that manytimes I do not believe it is 2022 in the US!! riversedge May 2022 #17

New headline at link: No more murder charge for women in Louisiana abortion bill Eugene May 2022 #18