They are calling this an unprecedented legal decision.
meth.jpgOn December 21, 31-year-old Theresa Lee Hernandez was sentenced to 15 years in prison in an Oklahoma court after pleading guilty to 2nd degree murder for causing her 8-month-old baby’s stillbirth in 2004 by using methamphetamine while pregnant.
It means the very same intentional killing of a preborn baby by her mother can now go one of three legal ways. The mother can be 1) escorted into an abortion mill to legally abort, sometimes having it paid for by taxpayers; 2) prosecuted for committing an illegal self-abortion; or 3) prosecuted for causing her baby’s en utero death by abuse….


“Medical experts” argued, according to the Associated Press, that “shifting pregnancy loss from a medical arena to a criminal one ‘has devastating implications for maternal and fetal health.'”
I don’t know of anything more devastating to fetal health than fetal death. Would these “experts” use the same logic were a mother to kill her postborn child?
What is actually devastating for the other side is this new variety of legal decision considering preborn persons.
One solid point their amicus brief to the court did make:

The risk of criminal prosecution thus may induce drug-using women who become pregnant to avoid any potential criminal prosecution by having an abortion.

But it is likely the very same “experts” decrying this decision, comprised of “national physicians, nurses, counselors, social workers, public health practitioners, and their professional associations,” also support taxpayer funded abortions of indigents, rendering their concern quite hollow.
Further, in no other arena do we fail to create or enforce laws for fear they will be circumvented.
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