This story, about a woman who shot her stomach, killing her unborn child, on the morning she was to deliver (she was having contractions), makes me want to scream and rage and cry all at the same time.
I want to hurt the judge.
That may not be the most Christ-like attitude to have, but at least it’s an honest one. I am very adamantly pro-life. Oddly enough, it isn’t rooted in my faith. I don’t think abortion is a moral problem–it’s a legal one. If this woman had waited a few hours to shoot her baby once it was outside the womb, there would be no question about her guilt. She would have been convicted of murder. But because the child (who was completely formed and full term) was still in the womb, she’s innocent of murder.
Why does some skin, tissue, flesh, and fluids count as the line that is drawn between murder and legal abortion?
All she was charged with was carrying out an illegal abortion. And then she was found not guilty because it is apparantly not a crime for the mother of the child to kill her own child.
If someone else had pulled the trigger, he or she would be criminally accountable. Because it was the pregnant woman herself, no crime was committed, the court ruled.
What kind of crap is that?
Wow, this is a heart-wrenching story. We need to rebuke Satan and keep him away from our children! This woman should definately have been found guilty! Argh!
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But Skinner’s defense lawyer, Kevin Martingayle, argued that the law did not make it a crime for a mother to cause her own abortion. Ultimately, that argument convinced Circuit Court Judge W. R. Carter.
In the Old Testament the Law was a mirror from God to show us how corrupt we were. This hopelessness before the law of God prepared them for the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Now our laws are a mirror of a different kind. Our law doesn’t point to God’s goodness but is a mirror image of our corruption, which is getting worse.
Think of it. You can kill your baby but in many states a parent doesn’t have the right to know if their daughter is even having an abortion.
You have the right to look at pornography on a taxpayer-funded computer in a public library, but you can’t have an impromptu prayer group meet in the same library.
The list goes on and on. Our laws really do show how sick we really are. This woman killed her child in 2006 America, and it was legal.
“Never forget that everything the Nazis did was legal” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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