{"id":8782,"date":"2002-10-18T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2002-10-18T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/18\/more-positive-news\/"},"modified":"2002-10-18T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2002-10-18T22:25:58","slug":"more-positive-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/more-positive-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More positive news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>A recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling has pro-choice<br \/>\ngroups fearing that the decision could undermine the case for legal abortions in<br \/>\nthe United States.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The court reversed the manslaughter conviction of a<br \/>\npregnant woman who was accused of murder for stabbing and killing her boyfriend<br \/>\nafter he attacked her in a way that posed no mortal danger to her &#8211; but that<br \/>\ncould have ended her pregnancy, the New York Times reported<br \/>\nWednesday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Jaclyn Kurr testified that after Antonia Pena punched her<br \/>\nin the stomach, she felt obligated to protect her 16 to 17 week old fetus from<br \/>\ndanger. She was convicted in lower court of manslaughter and sentenced to 5 &#8211; 20<br \/>\nyears in prison.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>However, the Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed her<br \/>\nconviction and ordered a new trial.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>In a ruling that&#8217;s sure to prompt hissy fits from the<br \/>\npro-choice crowd, the court said, &#8220;A pregnant woman may use deadly force to<br \/>\nprotect her fetus even when she does not fear for her own life.&#8221;<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2002\/10\/18\/82018.shtml\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling has pro-choice groups fearing that the decision could undermine the case for legal abortions in the United States. The court reversed the manslaughter&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}