Anchorage District Attorney Brittany Dunlop announced on Dec. 6 that an Anchorage Grand Jury indicted Iohani Wilhem Dean, 21, on three counts of murder of an unborn child, manslaughter of an unborn child and three counts of assault for the domestic violence assault of Chloe Fuimaono, 21, which led to the death of her unborn child.
The child was more than 36 weeks old at the time of death, and Dean will be arraigned in Anchorage Superior Court on Dec. 8. If convicted at trial, he faces up to 99 years of imprisonment, a fine of $500,000, or both.
The case highlights a contradictory provision in Alaska law when it comes to protection of unborn human life.
According to statute, a person commits a felony crime of “murder of an unborn child” if they intentionally cause the death of an unborn child. However, statute notes that the law does “not apply to acts that cause the death of an unborn child if those acts were committed during a legal abortion to which the pregnant woman consented.”
The Alaska Life at Conception Act, a comprehensive bill that guarantees equal protection from the moment of conception without exception to the child’s age, level of development, sex, nature of conception, or any other distinguishing characteristic, has been repeatedly filed in the Alaska Legislature to definitively protect all unborn life. Since 2017, this bill has been introduced in the State Legislature, but has yet to gain any serious traction.
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Ridiculous double speak.
The guy needs punishment to the full extent of the law, but murder is murder, and taking the life of any unborn child is morally reprehensible. He’ll probably get off easy, and if one was to go by logic, he has done no worse than anyone who takes the life of an unborn baby legally.
Thank you for saying what most rational thinking people were thinking. How is this any less apprehensible then sucking them out through a tube and murdering them that way?
Come on AG Treg Taylor. Write your stupid meaningless letter to “inform “ people of the law (we won’t uphold)!
Useless leaders in times like these are exactly what will bring our collective destruction!
Didn’t we just hear about how Brittney Spears was sobbing the entire time she did her home “abortion” murder? She’s still free.
Easy — a 36 wek old baby can live outside the womb, this murder. A fetus can’t live outside the womb – not murder.
Oh, my word. A ‘fetus’ does not magically become a human at some arbitrary point in the pregnancy. The child is a human being from conception. When we speak of ethical matters, we must be consistent. A 2-year-old can’t survive on its own without an adult to feed him/her, so does that make that child’s life less valuable than a self-sufficient adult?
Wonder why this bill did not get a mention?
https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=hb107
https://www.akleg.gov/basis/get_documents.asp?session=33&docid=15170
ProL vrs AHA debate
https://youtu.be/eOYyrOiu2kQ?si=stVJf6Z_rpa6GSl3