(04-19-2023 04:26 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I was just wondering if person A(the patient) was being charged with a crime(murder) for something Person B (the mother) was legally empowered to do(abort the child). Is the act of killing a fetus/child illegal for everybody but the mother?

This happened in Texas - what if it happens again in New Jersey or California, with their much more liberal definitions when a child may be aborted? Crime or not?. Or perhaps a crime if done by Joe, but not if done by Josephine?

It’s sort of like only licensed physicians with privileges at an accredited facility can perform surgeries. If you got in a car wreck and had a mangled lower extremity the librarian passing by her, cannot decide to perform a field amputation on you without consent even if he decided that’s what you would probably want.