Tennessee mom charged with murder after premature twins die with drugs in their system

Episode • Jul 30, 2019 • 57m

Today we discuss our take on this story out of Chattanooga, TN

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A woman has been charged after going into labor prematurely while high on ecstasy. The twins died shortly after birth with drugs in their system.

This story highlights the subjective principles in the abortion debate. Tennessee has a law superseding the US Supreme Court when defining "fetus viability." TN defining at 23 weeks, and the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade defining viability at 26 weeks.

In addition to the legal standards, we have the moral principle in killing an unborn child. The situation gets muddied up when you realize that if this woman had gone to Planned Parenthood that morning to have an abortion, and then went out to party, she presumably would not be charged with murder - Even though the same end-result would be the case (the death of two unborn children).

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