No gypsy, of course not. As I said above, I'm playing devil's advocate.

The fact is that, judging from the comments on this thread, people wouldn't think it's manslaughter if the day before a baby is born the pregnant women is driving and has an accident and the foetus dies.

But I'd bet they'd all think it was manslaughter if the day after the baby was born she had it on her lap and the same thing happened.

I guess the argument is that she has an alternative to placing the baby on her lap, but not to where she places the foetus.

But I can kind of see where the court is coming from.