re: #37 erik_t

In 36 states and in federal law, but (at least on the federal side) the fetus appears to be granted this status only in the context of injury or death during the commission of other specifically-indicated crimes, and explicitly not abortion.

It seems really, really weird.

abortion is not a crime, so yes, it makes sense.

What doesn’t make sense is the RC Hospital’s stance. Medical negligence may not be the cause of the death of the mother, when they didn’t even attempt to save the fetuses (at 7months gestation), does seem to be medical negligence.

Frankly, if I were the mother, I’d have told them to cut me open and do whatever they could for the fetuses, regardless of an obstetrician’s instruction or not. They had to have had a surgeon and OB Neo-Natal Nurses on site.

As the women was not conscious, I’d think her husband’s word would have been legal enough to do so.

It just seems a little weird that they didn’t do so. Even a non-religious affiliated hospital would so something, I think.