Am I wrong to believe that this Peterson thing is really about abortion?

4_Legs_Good

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:20 PM
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Am I wrong to believe that this Peterson thing is really about abortion?

Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 03:21 PM by dnvechoes

Everyone's abuzz about the Peterson verdict, but none of them really understand why this is such a monumental case. Thousands of murders occur every year, why has the media latched on to this one?

I say, it's because of the implications if he is found guilty of TWO counts of murder - his wife and the unborn baby. If he is, it will go all the way back up to the Supreme Court, and they'll have to address Roe v. Wade again.

Am I wrong, or am I the only one seeing this?

david

Edit: spelling Peterson

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physioex

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:21 PM
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1. Could be....

Like I have said pick a good looking white woman who can sell tabloids and ad space then hype the hell out of the story. Funny how we never hear about a poor hispanic or black woman in a urban area in similar situations?

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4_Legs_Good

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:22 PM
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2. Ain't that the truth n/t

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skylarmae

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:28 PM
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8. you guys might be right; but, as she was almost eight months

pregnant and it occurred on Christmas Eve, I'd like to think that, these facts flamed the fire and boom. Not to mention he says he was fishing 90 miles away on X-mas eve and then the bodies just happen to wash up in the same place.

However, the 'fetus is a baby' argument is valid, as you suggest.

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Midlodemocrat

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:23 PM
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3. I agree with you

I posted a similar thread a couple of days ago and got flamed for it, but I do think the one verdict versus two is potentially huge.

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PROGRESSIVE1

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:23 PM
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4. you are 100% correct!

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bullimiami

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:23 PM
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5. charging him with 2 murders was surely about abortion...

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seabeyond

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:24 PM
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6. yes it is, get him for two murders

on court has been established that fetus is life.

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Warpy

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:27 PM
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7. The greatest cause of death in pregnant women is murder,

usually by the baby's father. That's the main thing they have going for them in the Peterson case, the statistics. It doesn't seem that they have much in the way of forensic evidence.

I don't think this is about abortion any more than the murder of any anonymous pregnant woman is. This one's glitzy because she was a real looker and because they seemed like "nice" suburbanites.

When women can't face the consequences of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, they choose abortion. When men feel trapped by a pregnancy, whether or not it was a wanted one, they murder. That should be what this case is about, not the minutiae surrounding a pretty young white woman's death.

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shimmergal

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:58 PM
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11. Actually, there's a bunch of reasons for big press coverage.

Besides the pregnancy, Lacie disappeared on Christmas Eve, and both of the couple were super attractive and photogenic. I personally think the latter was most important--we know how the media grooves on "beautiful people."

Yeah, men sometimes murder when they feel trapped by a pregnancy, but they DO have another option--divorce. Too bad (if he did it) Scott didn't opt for divorce instead. Caddish behavior, to spring it on his wife just before or after the baby was born, but not nearly as bad as murder.

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JHB

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:30 PM
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9. You're at least partly right.

This may not be used as a RvW challenge, but it WILL be cited as precedent by one that does.

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rowire

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Fri Nov-12-04 03:49 PM
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10. FREE SCOTT

If this case is about abortion, I hope Petersen walks. Maybe then, the religious freaks will feel some of my pain.

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4_Legs_Good

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Fri Nov-12-04 04:07 PM
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12. Hee hee

Well, they could just find him guilty and then rule that since the fetus wasn't born yet, it doesn't have rights extended to actual Americans, and he is guilty of murder and the 2nd charge of murder was ill-conceived.

That would be a pretty good verdict.

david

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erniesam

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Fri Nov-12-04 04:19 PM
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13. You are right. Just listen to how its discussed on Fox news.

They, repeatedly, refer to the murder of a little baby boy. So now in one of the most liberal states in the union we have legal precedent for the killing of a fetus to be crime in at least the second degree with special circumstances.

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