(Taken from some newspaper, apparently)
Fetus a Person, Says South Carolina
Court
A fetus is a person and is covered
by child abuse laws, South
Carolina's highest court ruled.
In a 3-2 decision upholding an 8-year prison sentence dealt to a woman
charged with child neglect after tests showed her newborn baby had been
exposed to cocaine in utero, the majority reached a different
conclusion than every other state
high court that has dealt with the question.
Lynn Paltrow, a reproductive-rights lawyer who represented the baby's mother, Cornelia Whitner, said she plans to appeal. Paltrow noted that defining a fetus as a person means that women who undergo legal abortion procedures could be charged with murder. (The New York Times)
"Will the Fetus Be Aborted?" Not in South Carolina.... :)
Fetus
(who is actually pro-choice except
when it comes to me :)