40%? I've run across some studies that suggest that more than 80% of fertilized ova never go to term, the majority failing to implant in the womb or dying because of reinforced recessives. It would be interesting to see how fast the police departments would get buried under the investigations that would be required after every miscarriage to determine whether the woman had done something to cause the miscarriage, which would make it murder. As a relevant side note, I remember from seeing my younger sister's birth certificate many years ago that there was a space on the form marked 'Fetal Deaths' with the number '3' typed in it; that would, according to Huckabee's intention, potentially make my mother a murderer three times over.
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Date: 2008-02-27 02:36 am (UTC)