But Killing the Baby Is Okay?
May 4, 2014
Beginning July 1 in Tennessee, if you use drugs while you are pregnant you can be charged with a crime for causing harm to your unborn baby. I wonder if there are similar laws regarding the drinking of alcohol or smoking while pregnant? Drug warriors are never consistent. Even more inconsistent is that you can have a state-licensed doctor kill your unborn baby in Tennessee and neither you nor the doctor will be charged with a crime for causing the ultimate harm to your unborn baby.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

