Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I have been unable to get away from the Scott Peterson trial. Why the media decided to pick this particular murder case to spend all of their air time on is beyond me. There are thousands of murder cases all over the country, but for whatever reason this one seemed different to the media. Maybe it was the fact that Laci was a cute girl, and Scott was having an affair that made it more dramatic, but the story is nothing new.
However, there was one very important aspect to this trial that none of the lawyers and ex-judges mentioned (at least none that I saw). Scott Peterson was found guilty of TWO murders. Now, why is this important? Well, Conner (the name they gave the "fetus" Laci was carrying) was not yet born, he was still in utero. If it's not a human, it's not murder. If the baby is regarded as excess tissue, akin to a tumor, then if someone is killed who has cancer is the killer charged with the murder of the person AND the tumor? The answer is obviously no, but how has our legislative system, and more importantly our culture, not seen the double standard. It's obvious, and it could not be more evident. The only difference between Connor's death and the thousands of deaths that occur from abortion is the will of the mother. If the mother wanted to keep the baby, then it is considered human, but if the woman did not want to keep the baby, then it is excess tissue. That is a sad way to determine life or humanity.
Nothing in the DNA of a baby changes once they take their first breath. They are just as much a human inside of the womb as they are outside, and they deserve to have their life protected just like all of the other former fetus' walking around on the outside.
