Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant the week she disappeared. And when she was murdered, so was her son, Conner.

While many pro-choice activists agree that Peterson should be charged with two murders, this creates a double standard in the law when abortion is legal. Feminists should revisit their reasoning.

According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Morris County NOW president Marva Stark told a local newspaper that, “If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder. There’s something about this that bothers me a little bit. Was it born, or was it unborn? If it was unborn, then I can’t see charging (Peterson) with a double murder.”

After Stark made this statement feminists were horrified, so she tried to back off of it by saying that she was only “thinking out loud.”

Thinking out loud is another form of reasoning. And Stark’s thoughts were very reasonable. She noticed the double standard: you cannot claim that a child is a fetus when the mother aborts it, and then claim a fetus is a child when another being murders it.

But pro-choice activists only see her statement as a threat to Roe v. Wade.

“It was a terrible thing. It’s not nothing,” said Stark. “The word ‘murder’ bothers me because we (in the pro-choice movement) are attacked now. If you say that’s murder, that means killing a fetus is murder, and it’s a very slippery slope.”

Stark is right again. So instead of calling it “murder,” why not call it a violation of the mother’s choice? Because, you can call it whatever you want, but when it comes down to it, a dog is a dog and a cat is a cat. When a pregnant woman is beaten so hard that the fetus dies, is that not the equivalent to a doctor aborting the child inside of its mother’s womb? So if the issue at hand is a woman’s choice, like feminists claim, then why is the issue so touchy? As the Democrat-Gazette points out, a family mourns Conner’s death evne if he never drew a breath.

If feminists can become so afraid of abortion being challenged by one statement made, then maybe Roe v. Wade should be revisited. It is time to make sure that the laws in all states recognize an eight-month old baby as a person.