Legal innovation often comes from the USA and reaches Europe some years later…
Lifenews.com reports that in the US State of New Mexico, an aborted baby has won a wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the abortionist who killed him or her.
The estate of a 26-week-old aborted child has collected $200,000 in a New Mexico wrongful-death settlement, in what attorneys on the case call the first payout of this kind to an aborted baby treated as a person under state law.
The case, Wabbington v. Boyd, was settled and dismissed with prejudice on Sept. 14. The complaint described the plaintiff as a “26-week-old viable fetus” and a “person” under New Mexico’s Wrongful Death Act, “entitled to equal protection under the law of New Mexico and the United States.” The suit alleged the mother was under the influence of methamphetamine when she went to the abortion center and therefore could not give valid informed consent.
In New Mexico, the law explicitly recognises unborn children as persons. Absurdly, it nevertheless allows abortion. But the “legality” of abortion depends on the mother’s consent. The mother is likely going to be the true beneficiary of the settlement obtained on behalf of her child.
