bbauska wrote:I was pointing to my position that a fetus was a human.

Let me be clear.

Can a victim of attempted murder be ANYTHING but a human. If so, how? Your statement about non human victims does not apply to attempted murder otherwise.

Look, if you want to understand the answer to your questions, try making them what you intended to actually ask in the first place.

You did not ask, "How is this attempted murder if the fetus does not have human rights?". To which the answer is different* because it is not the same question as the one you did ask.

Your position is that the foetus is a human. And so, to you it would make sense for the law to reflect that. And in Tennessee, it appears to do that in the case of things like an assault on a pregnant woman, or an unlicensed abortion. Your problem is that the law also allows abortion, and you don't like that, and it seems to be causing you some logic failures as the conflict between different laws enters your binary-oriented world view.

* My answer to the question I have suggested you could have asked is like this:

To me, a foetus is not a human being, it is a proto-human. As such, it does not have full human rights. My opinion is that the Tennessee law is wrong, and a different charge should apply.

Thank you for your clarification.