Recently, multiple news stories have emerged in which pregnant women have been killed in various tragic situations — often by domestic/relationship violence of some sort. In many cases, the person responsible has been charged with two deaths — the woman and her preborn child.
Live Action took to the streets of Las Vegas to see how people responded when asked about whether or not a killer should be charged with the murder of a child in the womb, presenting interviewees with a number of questions before ultimately asking, “Is abortion a homicide?”
Live Action’s interviewer first asks, “If a pregnant woman is murdered, do you think its just for the judge to charge the criminal with two murders, one for the woman and the other for the baby in her womb?”
To this, the respondents unequivocally agree: “Yes.” The question is then asked, “If the boyfriend of the woman and father of the child doesn’t want to raise a baby, does he have the right to kill that baby if the baby’s unwanted?” Again, the answer is resounding. “Absolutely not,” says one man. “He does not have a right to kill a baby in the womb,” adds a woman.
The questioning is then taken a step further, and respondents agree that if someone slips a woman an abortion pill and she takes it unknowingly, causing her preborn child to die, the person should be charged with first degree murder. When asked why she advocates for a murder charge in those cases, one woman explains, “The baby was in the mother, so it didn’t get to be born.” She then confirms that she believes the baby is its own life at that point.
But the next question appears to trip people up. “Do you think it’s okay for a woman to kill a baby in the womb if she doesn’t want it?”
Though logically it should follow that this, too, would be homicide, many people are forced to pause and consider. Some resort to the statement that the woman should have a ‘choice’ as to whether or not her preborn child dies.
Abortion is the homicide of a preborn child, no matter who is ultimately responsible for that child’s intentional death. A mother cannot morally choose to kill her preborn child any more than it would okay for her to choose to kill her toddler or her teen.
At the end of the video one woman seems to recognize this, as she concedes that the child is being murdered regardless of who is doing the killing.
