THE argument that unborn children should be included in the law on culpable driving causing death found a champion in the Herald Sun yesterday.
In a heart-rending plea for a change in the law, Nancy Asani told how a car travelling on the wrong side of the road with its headlights off crashed into her and killed her unborn daughter, Meriem.
The driver of the other car pleaded guilty to dangerous driving with intent to cause serious injury and got a three-year suspended sentence and a $2000 fine.
Mrs Asani said: “He couldn’t be charged with culpable driving as Meriem wasn’t seen as a life.”
Mrs Asani has made a submission to the Justice Department which has released a discussion paper proposing the change.
This mother’s continuing grieving for the dead child she bore is a powerful argument for penalising drivers who cut short the life of an unborn but no less real human being.
By: plawolf - 6th March 2004 at 13:49
ah, but a problem would be when exact does an unborn child become ‘alive’? the same argument has been raging for years on the aborsion laws with no real result.
the law sounds good and fair, but will be very difficult to implement in real life.:(
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March 6, 2004 at 8:48 am