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11. Much of this article is spent "prompting questions" about killing unborn as homicide.

It quickly exploits the tragedy to ask about the need for a law in Colorado to declare the killing of a fetus a homicide. It doesn't mention who's prompting the questions. Other than the authors themselves. The real question is what we can learn about mental illness and sick human nature from this inexplicable crime.

Accusations that a man killed his pregnant wife and two young daughters is prompting questions about Colorado's lack of a law allowing homicide charges in the violent deaths of fetuses.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Colorado is among 12 states without such a law.

Prosecutors are expected to charge Chris Watts on Monday. Watts was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of three counts of murder.

Violent crimes have prompted debate before in Colorado, including in 2015 after a woman cut open a pregnant woman's belly and removed her unborn baby.

Proposals to change the law have been stymied by debate about when a fetus can legally be considered a human being.

Colorado does allow a homicide charge if a fetus was alive outside the mother's body and then killed