From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Feb 14, 2026 at 6:01:40 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman""  wrote:   
      
   > Rhino  wrote:   
   >> On 2026-02-14 4:30 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >   
   >>> A lawyer commenting repeated my line that a woman who spontaneously   
   >>> aborts in the first month or two of pregnancy can be charged with   
   >>> murder. This has massive implications for the clinical treatment of   
   >>> women in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances.   
   >   
   >>> The wall of separation between church and state has been breached.   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-923-governor-signed-l   
   w-pregnancies-9d2f1fb895a17511a920cc42d480668e   
   >   
   >> I think you could make a case for that breach to have happened in Roe v.   
   >> Wade. The Supremes essentially drew a dividing line saying abortion was   
   >> fine at such-and-such a point in the gestation cycle; the Puerto Rico   
   >> decision just moved the line.   
   >   
   > I'm not seeing your point. Blackman was criticized at the time for both   
   > the arbitrary time ranges, which were not based on landmarks in   
   > gestation, and his notion of when viability might occur, which he just   
   > made up. Viability was a moving target anyway, given advances in   
   > technology.   
   >   
   > Where's the religion?   
   >   
   > The arguments didn't change the centuries-old legal concept that human   
   > life begins with a live birth. In probate law, a yet to be born child   
   > does not inherit from the father if the father died between conception   
   > and birth.   
   >   
   > That human life begins at conception is a religious concept.   
      
   It can be but it doesn't have to be based on religion.   
      
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