The argument form is

A
Therefore B

Which is invalid.

Even if you were to fix the argument it wouldn't follow because that's not what involuntary manslaughter is.

I thought that Missouri had flirted with this. Kin to a guy that I worked with were terrible crackheads, they've had all of their kids finally taken away. But it took way too long, she got pregnant again, because you know when they're all cranked out all they do is fuck like bunnies, drink Mt. Dew and steal shit. Anyway I'm pretty sure the Judge warned her that if she was caught with crack in her system while with child that she'd be charged with attempted homicide. Maybe it was just a scare tactic. What I do know is that it screwed that baby out of any opre-natal care it may have received. She didn't go near a doctor or clinic until the poor doomed thing was nearly out.

Pro-lifers advocate that: Abortion is murder because it is intentionally killing a human life.

Involuntary manslaughter is the act of unintentionally killing a human life.

To be clear, I do not think abortion is murder. However, if I did, I don't see how miscarriage isn't involuntary manslaughter.

Please defend your logic with terms specific to this argument (murder, fetus/human life, manslaughter).

someone actually has to be responsible - a drunk driver for example, don't think negligence is sufficient

for example ~ someone charged with overseeing clean water systems wouldn't be charged with manslaughter if people die from contaminated water because he failed to do his job properly

This post was edited by duffman316 on Jul 14 2015 01:53pm

Please look up involuntary manslaughter.

Do you think abortion is murder?

Please look up the definition of murder.

Lol, modus ponens slammed



Look up definition of miscarriage, it isn't when a woman accidentally kills her baby.

FFS the discourse here is devolving into General Chat.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jul 14 2015 02:23pm

Huh?

He thinks a woman accidentally dropping her infant into a wood chipper is a miscarriage

More like a fumble.

This post was edited by Skinned on Jul 14 2015 02:23pm

I'll admit, I'm having a hard time defending this logical sequence when the first part of the sequence is: Abortion is murder.

This is the atheism thread. Let's put a stronger religious tone on this question rather than a legal one.

If abortion is murder because it is killing a human life, is miscarriage god's wrath? Did he intend for that fetus to die?

Is the fetus saved? Does the fetus go to hell for eternity? Maybe there is some special exception? I'm struggling to find the verse in the Bible that addresses the eternal fate of the fetus after a miscarriage.