Women’s Rights Advocates Want To Overturn Conviction Of Mom Who Killed Her Child With Drug Use
Normally you wouldn’t think this is the sort of thing womens’ groups would want to take on, but you see the child that was murdered was still inside the mother’s womb. And it’s ok if a woman kills her child with drugs as long as that child isn’t born yet.
Constitutional right to an abortion and all that.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Women’s health advocates and other groups are asking the North Dakota Supreme Court to overturn the child endangerment conviction of a McLean County woman whose unborn child died after a drug overdose.
Michelle Behles (BAY’-les) is serving a five-year prison sentence. She pleaded guilty in February to drug charges and entered a conditional plea to child endangerment, meaning she reserves her right to appeal that charge. . . .
South Central District Judge Thomas Schneider ruled earlier that North Dakota courts have recognized viable, unborn children to be human beings in wrongful death cases.
Court documents say a doctor in September 2007 found Behles had taken toxic levels of drugs and said her child, which was more than 29 weeks along, did not survive the overdose.
The petition is being sponsored by the National Advocates for Pregnant Women. Because advocating for pregnant women apparently includes making sure they don’t get convicted for killing their children with drug use.
This is such a ghoulish issue. How can anyone argue that it’s not a crime to kill an unborn child? A child that, if not killed by drug use or an abortionist’s scalpel, would grow and live just like the rest of us.
