US District Court to Examine Definition of a "Person"
US District Court to Examine Definition of a "Person" - National Constitution Center
In filings last month, defense lawyers argued that if the baby was defined as a fetus under Roe v. Wade, then Stinnett's death cannot be the result of a kidnapping, which requires the victim to be a person.In Monday's filing, prosecutors argued that Roe v. Wade defines "persons" only in the context of the abortion issue, not for other purposes in criminal law. They also pointed to the Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004, enacted before Stinnett's death, which defined a child in the womb as a "person."
"This legislation extended criminal law's protection to all human life," wrote Matt Whitworth, first assistant U.S. attorney. "Consequently, Montgomery's reliance on Roe v. Wade is misplaced, and her allegation that Victoria Jo Stinnett, the unborn child in this case, was not a 'person' is incorrect."
When you read a summary of the crime, you can tell that the perpetrator certainly thought that the "fetus" in question was a person, since she attempted to pass the child off as her daughter.
The notion that Victoria Jo Stinnett was not a person was only explainable in the sick culture of our times. Any logical thought process leads clearly to the conculsion that she was indeed a human person.