Maybe some of our dear friends would permit me to suggest we put the hammers back in the toolboxes before someone beats Lifesite News to death . I’m guilty of hammering them myself - more than once, however, suggestion: Forget about Lifesite News for a minute.
Whether it is “legal” or not proves to be somewhat of a technicality. A message is being given here that , now, if a young mother doesn’t want to carry her child, or doesn’t want people to know she’s pregnant, or for whatever other half baked reason someone might come up with, not only can she have an abortion - legally, she could also kill the child after she has given birth and still get away with it. Without even considering the mother’s mental or emotional condition , that is the message being conveyed by the judge’s decision.
Ya ,ya , I know : "…suspended sentence, blah blah blah. "
We are living in the
Culture of Death. Lifesite News didn’t come up with that name; his holiness Pope John Paul II did !
Isn’t anyone even eerily reminded a little bit of Blessed Mother Theresa’s words … " And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another ? "
Katrina Effert was originally sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years after being convicted of second degree murder and her lawyer’s contraversial call for a
mistrial was rejected..
Infanticide, on the other hand, according to the Canadian Criminal Code :
233.
A female person commits infanticide when by a wilful act or omission she causes the death of her newly-born child, if at the time of the act or omission she is not fully recovered from the effects of giving birth to the child and by reason thereof or of the effect of lactation consequent on the birth of the child her mind is then disturbed. R.S., c. C-34, s. 216.
is punishable by -
237.
Every female person who commits infanticide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. R.S., c. C-34, s. 220.
The more we read about it, the more we discover that the 5-year imprisonment term is rarely applied in cases of conviction.
Not only that, as much as 5 months after giving birth, a mother could still be considered as not having recovered from the effects of giving birth.
Have a look at this one page from the
Canadian Children’s Rights Council and you’ll verify the above and further discover from the Canadian CRC Editor’s commentary …
.
That’s where we stand guys.
Justice Joanne Veit , in her verdict :
Remember
Kermit Gosnell ?
We should consider this:
He did pretty well exactly the same thing that mother did to her child . If he had done that in Canada, I wonder (if) what he would have been charged with…
… Do we really think it will be so long before a lawyer successfully argues that the (ahem)
doctor was acting compassionately on the mother’s behalf when he killed her child directly after delivering it ?
Welcome to the culture of death . In between bashing sessions of Lifesite News , it’s probably a good idea to not let our hearts bleed all over our sense of right and wrong or it just might become obscured.
