{"id":8313,"date":"2003-05-08T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/05\/08\/congratulations-your-pregnant-with-a-body-part\/"},"modified":"2003-05-08T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2003-05-08T17:27:51","slug":"congratulations-your-pregnant-with-a-body-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/05\/congratulations-your-pregnant-with-a-body-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, your pregnant with a body part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) &#8211; Angering both sides of the abortion debate, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a fetus is a body part, akin to teeth, skin and hair that are eventually shed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The ruling unanimously upheld the conviction of a man who tried to induce a miscarriage by slipping his girlfriend labor-inducing drugs. Edwin Sandoval argued he could not be charged with attempting to commit aggravated assault because the fetus was the target, not the mother. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Though the court held that the 5-week-old fetus was part of the woman&#8217;s body, Chief Justice William J. Sullivan issued a separate concurring opinion saying a fetus might have &#8220;its own independent existence.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;In other words, the fetus may both be a part of its mother as well as its own individual being,&#8221; Sullivan wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Anti-abortion groups applauded the court&#8217;s protection of the fetus, but criticized the identification of a fetus as a body part. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uslatest\/story\/0,1282,-2650348,00.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) &#8211; Angering both sides of the abortion debate, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a fetus is a body part, akin to teeth, skin and hair&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}