Mississippi Supreme Court Expands Wrongful Death Law to Cover Unborn Fetuses – foxnews.com
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a decision criticized by one of its members as an assault on Roe v. Wade, held Thursday that a fetus is a “person” under state law and wrongful death claims can be filed on its behalf.
The justices upheld Tracy Tucker’s right to pursue a wrongful death claim after she alleged emotional distress and a mistake by her doctors caused her to have a miscarriage in 1997. The fetus was 19 weeks old at the time, according to doctors.
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The 6-2 ruling expands the definition of a “person” in wrongful death statutes to include an “unborn child.”
Notice the ruling doesn’t make any distinction between the wanted unborn child and the unwanted unborn child.
But I loved the headline: “Unborn Fetuses.” In contradistinction, I suppose, to all those BORN fetuses out there . . .
(Pete Singer, call your office!)