Did You Know Stillborn Babies Aren't Considered A "Person"??

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This is sort of a follow up to my discussion about that stillborn baby that was thrown out as garbage at that Christ Hospital in NJ. I did some further reading of the situation and came up with a statement in numerous articles about this case, that according to the laws in New Jersey, a stillborn baby has NO status...that baby isn't even considered a "person"....Like WTF? This got me curious. I wanted to find out, what in general was the status of stillborn babies in other states here in America. What I came up with was mind-boggling, and it's not ONLY here in the United States, but from what I'm gathering is a worldwide legal status of still born babies. The status is the same: they are NOT considered as a person. A stillborn baby while the parents can receive a death certificate of the stillborn baby, they can't get a birth certificate, since technically speaking the baby wasn't born "alive" or have it's first breath of life before dying. I was further reading that pro-choice activists are worried that if actions are taken to provide birth certificates of stillborn babies and are recognized as a "person" this could jeopardize abortion rights--okay not to get into what you think about abortion if you're pro or con..this is NOT, repeat NOT about abortion. I see it as a separate thing when a woman freely chooses to have an abortion. I think it's a whole different matter however, when a woman WANTS the baby, is overjoyed with having a baby, but then something happens and the baby is stillborn. Don't you think then that the stillborn baby should be recognized as a "person", and a birth certificate should be given to the parents? Shouldn't there be better dignity to all this? The woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby is traumatized as it is, as she was looking forward to bringing that little life into the world...and then have it slapped in her face that due to the laws of the land, that baby isn't even considered a person?? Here are some of the "gems" of articles I found...yikes I found one from a website in South of Wales for crying out loud. {Warning: These links are NOT referral links but links about the status of stillborn babies} http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LC20070621016 http://www.momlogic.com/2008/06/birth_certificates_for_stillbo.php http://www.missingkate.org/main.htm This winner is from Canada http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1382 [i]Judge rules stillborn baby has no value (small excerpt: "The Supreme Court of Canada [has] determined that a fetus had no legal status until it is a child, born alive and viable.") [/i] I don't know about you but I think this is so wrong. How can anyone in their right minds tell a woman who wanted to have their baby, that it was stillborn and it's not considered a person? To that mother it WAS!