MS Supreme Court Expands Wrongful Death Law to Cover Fetuses

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AP.

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a decision criticized by one of its members as an assault on Roe v. Wade (search), held Thursday that an unborn fetus is a "person" under state law and wrongful death claims can be filed on its behalf.

The justices upheld a Bolivar County woman's right to pursue a wrongful death claim (search) after she alleged emotional distress and a mistake by her doctors caused her to have a miscarriage (search). The fetus was 19 weeks old at the time.

Put on your bullshit gloves and read the rest at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95383,00.html

now I have a question. Does this mean that the state can imprison someone for smoking while pregnant? if my wife (not that I have one, but anyway) has a miscarriage that I blame on her diet, I can now sue her, right?