The Illogical extension of "Protection of the rights of the unborn"

[MrScorpio]

UAE fines mother over baby death

A court in Dubai has found a woman who lost her unborn child in a traffic accident guilty of manslaughter in what is said to be an unprecedented ruling.

The Lebanese woman, who was nine months pregnant at the time, was also ordered to pay blood money. She said she had not caused the accident.

The judge based the ruling on Islamic law. The court said the rights of unborn babies needed to be protected.

Prosecutors had argued that the verdict should act as a deterrent.

The accident happened in October last year. The court found that she had failed to keep a safe distance from the car ahead of her.

Several cars were involved in the accident, English-language daily The National reports. The paper says the woman's vehicle was hit by the car following hers when she braked suddenly.

The female foetus died after the umbilical cord was cut.

Dubai's traffic court ordered the bereaved mother to pay US$5,450 in blood money and fined her for "unintentional homicide".

Salah Bu Farousha, head of traffic prosecution, said women in the third trimester of pregnancy should avoid driving altogether to protect their own and their foetuses' lives.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8032780.stm

Expect common sense to be thrown out the window, if the Right to Lifers get their way.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Islamic law ................

Nice, lovely, wonderful.

Antediluvian fucks ...........................

[bertman]

2. My sentiments exactly.

[MrScorpio]

3. All religious fundies have more in common than uncommon

Expect our fundies to be cheering for the same thing as well

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Exactly ........

My disdain for organized religion grows daily. These people are no different than the dumb fucks who bomb Planned Parenthood offices...........................

[Kerrytravelers]

4. And yet, our rw fundie fruitcakes want our country turned into a theocracy.

:eyes:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. You know, I pride myself on my non-violent stance,

and I've never done anything that even comes close to violent.

But these are the people who will drive me to " ... pick up a gun or a brick or a stone ..."

(With thanks to Jackson Browne:

I’ve been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire )

[SeattleGirl]

7. What a fucked up law by some fucked up people.

That's like saying the woman planned to lose her baby that way. Or wanted to. Or something equally illogical.

That poor woman.

First she loses her baby, and then the not so funny clown court does that to her.

Fuck 'em all with a bit stick!