Looking at him reminds me of the old Nazis who were prosecuted.

“Just when we thought Cosby couldn’t sink any lower, he surprises us!”

This is really the way he’s going to protect his legacy? Who is giving this man legal advice? Take your LUMPS, creepy old man. Take them with some fucking grace, you aged shitheel. Allow your victims some small measure of peace; pay the price for the terrible decisions authorized by your fame-addled brain and enacted…

#ImWithHer

Welcome to the world of liberal hand wringing. Yeah, this lady straight up murdered a baby, but to charge her would open the door.

I don’t think so. I mean, I’m as pro-choice as they come, but that doesn’t mean I want all fetuses to die. This fetus was wanted by its mother, and it should have lived. As far as that goes in determining precedent... well, I realize that’s a much murkier issue.

Ugh, same. I heard about this case while already pregnant and was immediately scared out of my mind any time I responded to an ad. The tape of her 911 call is so awful.

No. It just makes you human. It's a good thing (because, choice) but it's sad that it has to go this far out there... I mean I can't even bring myself to explain it because it's so sad. Yeah, this woman murdered a potentially happy family. I feel you. I agree, but... Off to get some wine ( how I deal with this world).…

No! You simply have the totally correct instinct that this is a horrific crime, just like forced abortion would be a horrific (and anti-choice) crime. I’m sure the legislature would be able to pass a law making forced or coerced termination of a pregnancy a crime if they weren’t so focused on making an unrelated point…

No - I think there’s room to have a charge related to unwanted, forced abortion. That way, you can charge someone for causing the death of an unborn foetus without having to give said foetus personhood, if their actions led or contributed to the death of the unborn future child.

I am pro-choice, but I also want that person held accountable for the death of the fetus.

It's a slippery slope law. In my also conflicted pro choice brain, a 7 month pregnancy isn't a clump of cells anymore, it's a baby that is potentially viable outside the womb. And in this case, it appeared to be a wanted, healthy baby, who was murdered by an awful person. BUT I would hate to see a family dealing with…

FUCK NO. This is, like, the most insensitive analogy on the planet, but think about being on a beach with a lovely snack and you turn your head and a seagull comes and swipes your food. NOT COOL. If you get up to leave and you left your snack on purpose because you weren’t hungry after all (though littering is not…

I don’t think you’re a hypocrite.

I don’t think so at all! I think there should be a way to differentiate between a woman’s right to choose whether to proceed with a pregnancy inside her OWN BODY or to have a safe medical procedure to terminate it...versus a violent criminal assault against her will wherein her attacker cuts her open and rips her…

I think the way to get around it (if Republicans actually cared and were not just trying to bring about personhood stuff here) would be to criminalize the act of causing the premature birth of the fetus AGAINST THE WILL of the mother. Seems simple enough.

Not a hypocrite at all. A prochoice person should want the offender to be charged with what she did, because this was horrific and not the pregnant woman’s choice at all. This was a literal forced abortion, violent and heinous.

No. I don’t think it does. Just because you’re pro-choice doesn’t mean you have to hold the most extreme position possible (nothing is a baby until it’s born? Even a 38-week fetus?) in order to balance out the most extreme people on the other side. That’s not where I want to be, ideologically or morally. It sucks to…

Yeah but. I am a lawyer in Colorado. My organization is often asked to do friend of the court briefs. We are a frequent target for Republican ire at the legislature.

I feel you. I felt very hypocritical when I started to become active in protesting against the death penalty while being pro-choice... It’s one of those “if you don’t know, I can’t tell you...” things though.