Judge Dismisses Charges Against Woman Who Shot Her Baby
Back in May I posted a story about a woman who, because she allegedly could not afford an abortion, shot herself in the stomach on her due date in order to kill her unborn child so that she would not have to raise it. At that time a judge had dismissed the criminal case against her because a woman cannot be found guilty of killing her own unborn child because she has a right to an abortion (the law against late-term abortions in Virgina, where this took place, was overturned by the courts previously).
The state appealed the case, and today we learn that a circuit appeals judge has affirmed the lower court’s ruling stating that this woman cannot be held responsible for murdering her unborn child on her due date.
The reasoning behind all of this astounds me.
Let me first point out that the fact that had someone else aside killed this woman’s unborn child against her wishes they would be found guilty of murder. Yet, because in this instance the mother decided that her child should die there is no crime. Which makes absolutely no sense. Why should an unborn child’s status, and thus its constitutionally protected right to live as per the 5th amendment, hinge upon the mother’s opinion as to whether or not she wants the child? Why, under current law, is an unborn child a life worth protecting only if a mother thinks it is worth protecting?
And what’s the difference between an unborn baby in the womb on its due date and a baby that has been born? If this woman had killed her child after it emerged from her womb she would undoubtedly be held as a murderer, but because she shot the child while it was still in her womb she’s guilty of no crime?
This is absolute lunacy.
The truth of the matter is this: Life begins at conception. Trying to draw a line at any point after conception and saying “before this point there is no life, after this point there is life” is just an exercise in futility. Once a child is conceived it begins to develop and change, a process that lasts well into adulthood. Drawing a “life/no life” line in between two points of the child’s development in the womb is every bit as absurd as trying to draw it in between the child’s learning to crawl and learning to walk.
To be quite honest with you, I expect this woman’s case to be a pretty massive blow to the pro-abortion crowd. I just can’t imagine that Americans won’t recoil in horror at the legal freak show legalized has brought to.













