........courts in seven states have delivered rulings in defence of foetuses damaged even during the pre-viable stages of pregnancy, in other words during the same time-frame in which an abortion under Roe v Wade would have been perfectly legal. Thus, last December, the West Virginia Appeals Court ruled that an 18-week-old foetus killed in a car accident could be viewed as having been a living human being, opening the way for the father, who lost mother and foetus, to seek damages.
Here is an article written in 1996 about cases and rulings in the US in favour of foetuses being injured of killed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-mother-her-baby-and-the-bottle-13640...
........courts in seven states have delivered rulings in defence of foetuses damaged even during the pre-viable stages of pregnancy, in other words during the same time-frame in which an abortion under Roe v Wade would have been perfectly legal. Thus, last December, the West Virginia Appeals Court ruled that an 18-week-old foetus killed in a car accident could be viewed as having been a living human being, opening the way for the father, who lost mother and foetus, to seek damages.
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