Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules Unborn Babies are Persons

by  Patricia Stewart of LifeNews.com  Feb. 16, 2023 

the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against defendant Peter Ronchi, who had appealed his two first-degree murder convictions for the violent stabbing death of his girlfriend and her unborn child. The Court rejected the defendant’s claim that his conviction for the murder of the unborn child was an error because he had not stabbed the baby. The SJC observed, “By ending the mother’s life, he destroyed the viable fetus through cessation of maternal blood flow.”

MCFL’s executive director, Patricia Stewart, Esq., praised the court’s decision, “We applaud the Supreme Judicial Court’s life-affirming acknowledgement of the humanity of the unborn child in its recognition of the fetus as the second victim of a maternal murder, even without a direct traumatic injury to the unborn child. In so ruling, the court rejected outmoded ways of thinking about the status of an unborn child in instances of violent crime.”

Myrna Maloney Flynn, MCFL’s president, offered mixed reaction. “It’s excellent that the Court unambiguously states that not one but two innocent lives were lost in this horrific crime: those of a pregnant woman and a preborn human being. What’s nearly as newsworthy is that, in its February 14 article about the Court’s ruling, The Boston Globe included the phrase ‘unborn child’ three times as well as ‘unborn son.’ What concerns me is the glaringly egregious and ongoing double standard that our legal system and media continue to ignore.”  Read the rest of the article  at  https://www.lifenews.com/2023/02/16/massachusetts-supreme-court-rules-unborn-babies-are-persons/