"And Clerisian , you did n't seem to be arguing that the two were distinct , rather you appeared to say that pro-lifers did support charging mothers who miscarried with manslaughter ( where the mother 's actions , say , drinking heavily , were the cause of death ) ."
"The definition of manslaughter is when one 's actions , which end up killing someone , display a reckless disregard for the dangers of the situation . That 's not a proper legal definition , but it 'll do . Now , you want to argue that pro-lifers would be forced into the counterintuitive conclusion that ALL miscarriage is manslaughter , and thus their position is ridiculous . I 'm saying that they would only be forced to admit that a very small portion of miscarriage is manslaughter , and a portion that they would probably be willing to make a case for . I 'm not saying `` miscarriage is not manslaughter , `` but only `` miscarriage is not always manslaughter. `` For example , if a woman took perfectly good care of herself and did nothing dangerous , but had a miscarriage anyway , she would obviously not have committed manslaughter . If a woman had one drink with dinner , but she was carrying a very unhealthy fetus and it died , then she would not have committed manslaughter , because that was not reckless . I pointed out the `` you-shouldn't-be-drinking-and-having-unprotected-sex `` argument as a position somebody might hold , but I think that it would probably be judged as unrepresentative of the definition of manslaughter . So obviously , miscarriage can not be manslaughter in the sense of `` every instance of A is an instance of B. ``"
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