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A Massachusetts murder case highlights what critics decry as a double standard.
By Matthew McDonald, EWTN News, February 20, 2023
Matthew McDonald is a staff reporter for The National Catholic Register and the editor of New Boston Post. He lives in Massachusetts.
BOSTON — A Massachusetts court ruling upholding a murder conviction in the death of a near-full-term unborn child has pro-lifers crying double standard.
The state’s highest court has upheld two first-degree murder convictions against a man who stabbed his pregnant girlfriend to death: one for the woman and one for what the court called “their child.”
The court followed its precedent in a 1984 case (Commonwealth v. Cass) in which a driver was convicted of motor vehicle homicide after his vehicle struck a woman who was eight and a half months pregnant, resulting in the death of her child. In that case — upheld last week — the court said “a viable fetus is a person” when it comes to the state’s reckless-driving law. …
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