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New Hampshire Law: It’s A Person At 20 Weeks, Unless You Want To Abort It
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The New Hampshire Senate passed a bill ruling you can freely kill your own child but will get charged with murder if you kill someone else’s kid.
The state Senate Bill 66 aims to address “fetal homicide” and defines a fetus as a person after 20 weeks of pregnancy. It says that anyone who causes the death of a fetus will be liable for homicide or manslaughter charges, joining 38 other states with similar legislation.
The state bill, however, exempts pregnant women who abort their baby, as well as their doctors.
The bill requires that a fetus “shall be included in the definition of ‘another’ for the purposes of first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide and causing or aiding suicide.”
The bill defines the point at which a fetus becomes a baby, with all the rights of personhood, and then stipulates that the manner in which you kill your child determines whether it’s murder or not.
“The fetal homicide bill is about justice for women,” Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said after the bill’s executive council meeting in March. “It has nothing to do with being pro-choice or pro-life. It provides security and addresses injustice for women.” Sununu campaigned as a “pro-choice” Republican.
Devon Chaffee, executive director of the NH-ACLU, disagreed, saying the bill would pit “fetal rights against womens rights.”
“Listen to the communications you are receiving in support of this bill,” Chaffee testified. “Is it addressing the issue of violence against pregnant women, or is the primary focus on a personal belief that life begins at conception, a fetus is a person, and that Roe v. Wade should be overturned? … SB 66 is not the solution,” she said according to NH’s Union Leader.
The bill will go into effect Jan 1. 2018.
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