A woman in Alabama has been charged with manslaughter for getting shot while pregnant. The state treats the fetus as a person.

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This is the natural conclusion of the twisted premises of those who treat fetuses as sacred.

But the problem may be broader than that. Suppose she had been shot while carrying a three-year-old child in her arms? Suppose someone else had shot at her and killed the child.

I don't think people should be prosecuted for the effects of being shot at.

Thousands of Americans — perhaps hundreds of thousands — have been killed because judges sealed evidence of deadly defects in products and kept the defects secret for years as more people died. The dangerous flaws of OxyContin, which spread opioid addiction, were concealed for 12 years.

Trade secrecy is always bad for the public. Occasionally it is deadly, but usually merely harmful. We should change the law so that no significant problem can be concealed in this way.

Businesses should not be allowed to enforce an NDA to conceal mistreatment of workers, customers, or the public.

Agreeing to nondisclosure of generally useful technical information, such as software, is betrayal of society as a whole. I refuse on principle to do this.

10% of the workers in Britain have been captured by the piecework sweatshop dis-services.

We must extend all the rights and benefits of employees to cover these forms of work.

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Extinction Rebellion blocked a bridge in Paris to call attention to the implications of the hottest day ever recorded there.