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Friday, September 16, 2011

TN: Infanticide of twins.....the shame is ours....

Two recent news stories are so terrible and heart wrenching. The latest one is in my backyard...Hendersonville, TN. 

A young woman hides her pregnancy with twins and delivers two boys in the toilet of her home. When they cry she smothers them to death and hides them in a laundry basket.  Details are still sketchy but she managed to hide the pregnancy of twins from her parents, friends and co workers. One report even said she stood up for a friend's wedding just weeks prior to the delivery. It is not confirmed that she knew she was pregnant. This is so tragic it is hard to write about. By all accounts this seems to be totally out of character for her. Two lives are lost, she and her family will never be the same.

As the news accounts point out....there is a safe haven law in TN and she could have taken her babies  to a number of places such as police or fire station or hospital and left them no questions asked. She also could have sought the services of a pregnancy resource center right in her hometown. And most of all she could have made the courageous decision to choose adoption for her sons  so they could live. No one ever seems to consider that possibility anymore and what a tragedy. Many choose abortion rather than adoption thinking that the latter would make them a bad mother. A birth mother who makes an adoption plan is a selfless and courageous person making a decision  that puts  the best interest of the child ahead of herself.


The other case in the news has been  referred to as a fourth trimester abortion. This case is from Canada and the  19 year old woman delivers her son and strangles him , throwing his body over the fence. Two juries found her guilty of second degree murder but the judge reduced the charge to infanticide and gave her no jail time. In Canada abortion on demand and at govt. expense through all 9 mos. of pregnancy is the rule. So infanticide seems less egregious. Fourth trimester abortion. 

And people are still fuming over the Caylee Anthony death at age three and her mother walking around free.

What is the take away.....abortion has cheapened  human life in our society.  The mother's quality of  life trumps the right to life of the child. Why should we be horrified at infanticide  at birth or three years of age. This is what we have allowed in the name of choice. 

The shame is ours!



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