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May 6, 2009
Liberals Move Toward Decriminalizing Infanticide
Andrea Yates and Debra Gindorf were lucky — these baby butchers had prominent moonbats to take up their cause. Yates had MSM apparatchik Katie Cupcake, and Gindorf had Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, who just commuted her sentence. But what of other baby killers, whose crimes aren't quite heinous enough to capture the hearts of the liberal elite? Who looks out for them?
Jessica Ferrar is who. Via Cassie Fiano:
She’s a Texas state representative, recently honored by Planned Parenthood and the proud owner of a 100% NARAL approval rating. She’s currently trying to force through a bill that would make Catholic hospitals be required to dispense the morning-after pill. Her latest bright idea? To decriminalize infanticide. Introducing Texas HB 3318, the first of its kind in the entire country, known as “the infanticide bill”.
The bill would distinguish the lesser crime of infanticide from murder, and define it like this:
A person commits an offense if the person wilfully by an act or omission causes the death of a child to whom the person gave birth within the 12-month period preceding the child's death.
It's infanticide instead of murder if
at the time of the act or omission, the person's judgment was impaired as a result of the effects of giving birth or the effects of lactation following the birth.
Killing your kid would still be a felony — but barely. Punishment would range from a maximum of 2 years down to 180 days, and/or a manageable $10,000 fine, far less than what most of us pay in taxes each year. This is for murdering your own child, so long as you do it before their first birthday.
This outrage has passed the Texas State Criminal Jurisprudence Committee and looks likely to become law. If this gets through in Texas, it's a cinch to take root in the rest of the country. The next step will be decriminalization.
Crying baby getting on your nerves? Brain in with a skillet and throw it out with the trash. Then tell the judge you were in a bad mood.
That liberals sympathize so openly with women who commit the ultimate crime by killing their own children tells you all you need to know about the condition of their souls.
By the way, Ferrar claims to be a Catholic. If that word is to mean anything at all, excommunication needs to come back into style.
On tips from Oldcrow and Burning Hot. Hat tips: theblogprof, Stop the ACLU.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 6, 2009 8:09 AM
Comments
The sub-human down in Tampa who threw his ex-girlfriend's baby out the car window will be pleased to hear about this.
Posted by: forest at May 6, 2009 8:20 AM
I can't believe Rick Perry (squishy moderate as he has been in the past before the recent tilt to the right) would sign this.
Posted by: Naqamel at May 6, 2009 8:20 AM
Oh, I see! Lactation is tied to insanity, now! Why do people like this always insist on hanging on to their Catholic credentials? Don't they realize that in the end they'll be judged more harshly because they should have known better?
Posted by: Anonymous at May 6, 2009 8:22 AM
This is disgusting on so many levels. For years they have tried to say that birth gave a person the right to life, and now they are trying to change even that.
Posted by: LoneWolfArcher at May 6, 2009 8:34 AM
Every woman who has lived through labor and late nights, exploding diapers and unknown illness, 3 am, 4am, 5am wake up calls and crying spells for no reason...those women, who may have felt weak and unable to cope, and the man beside her for all of the "suffering" are gasping in horror right now at this right to murder because one "felt like it".
Posted by: Heather M at May 6, 2009 8:39 AM
Not sure why it's hard to believe Rick Perry would sign it. He also mandated that all 11 and 12 year old girls in the state of Texas be vaccinated with the trendy new so called STD vaccine Gardasil.
This was for the benefit of his old buddy Mike Toomey, a lobbyist for Merck, the company that makes the "vaccine" and is making a fortune on it. I'm sure Perry got a nice stock portfolio for that completely *unconstitutional* bit of nastiness.
Rick Perry is as crooked and hypocritical as they come. He sure as helk doesn't care about children.
Posted by: sami at May 6, 2009 8:59 AM
Oh, I get it...this is a "Life Trial Period"
You can return your child to God within the first 12 months if, for some reason, you don't want it any more.
WHO will stop this madness?
WHAT will stop this madness?
It had better be soon. Praying for the asteroid.
Posted by: Sylvia at May 6, 2009 9:01 AM
Oh. Forgot the huge wad of $$$ he (Rick Perry) received from Merck’s political action committee during his re-election campaign. :)
He's a peach!
Posted by: sami at May 6, 2009 9:02 AM
sami, who did you vote for president last Nov?
Posted by: LoneWolfArcher at May 6, 2009 9:42 AM
I have a modest proposal. Suppose we modify the language to include anyone who acts like a child, and remove the birth requirement. Then it's open season on liberals.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 6, 2009 10:23 AM
As for the call for excommunication:
As frequent commenters here may know, I have a background in Church history and theology. Though my canon law knowledge is a bit sketchy, I believe the first step would be for the bishop in her diocese to bar her from receiving Church sacraments. If she continued in her public advocacy of this crap, her censure would move up the food chain of Church hierarchy, eventually reaching the Vatican. At that point, formal excommunication would be an option.
This process is distinct from a latae sententiae excommunication, which is automatically incurred without any formal action by anyone in the Church hierarchy.
As far as arguing what the Church should do or what canon law should look like, that would be a discussion for another time.
Posted by: GeronimoRumplestiltskin at May 6, 2009 10:50 AM
And thes eare the same liberals to pettion to have that stupid flower loving fly listed as endangred the facts are you can go to jail for chopping downa tree witha spotted owls nest in it but jill your new born and they reward you with praise and awards
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at May 6, 2009 11:57 AM
@ Sylvia - WHO is John Galt?
Posted by: Heather M at May 6, 2009 1:24 PM
I am perfectly okay with this.
Posted by: cave ahht at May 6, 2009 2:00 PM
"I am perfectly okay with this.
"Posted by: cave ahht at May 6, 2009 2:00 PM"
How do you feel about the death penalty?
Posted by: KHarn at May 6, 2009 2:57 PM
cave ahht says,
"I am perfectly okay with this."
Obviously, he was agreeing with Jay Guevara and Sylvia........
Posted by: TonyD95B at May 6, 2009 3:31 PM
Oh the poor murderers, being so stressed out because of choises they made in the first place. We don't need to punish them, they're the victims afterall, in fact lets give them reperations. ...Liberalism never ceases to make me sick.
Posted by: Steve at May 6, 2009 8:55 PM
This can't be true, how does one justify this?
It looks to be a 1st degree felony what would the sentencing guidelines be and how is this sentence different from murder and why do we need a seperate sentence for this crime?
Posted by: Andrew at May 6, 2009 9:53 PM
It's already the law in England. I found out during that British nanny who killed the baby here in the US and the news reported that in England it wouldn't have been murder and she wouldn't have been put in jail for it. It makes it less of a crime to kill the defenseless infant than someone who could possibly fight back. Theirs was also 12 months, I believe. The reasoning was very similar to the "orphan" defense - the punishment is already built in because you lost your baby. Never mind that you murdered it. But as England goes, so do we. This is not surprising at all. In Japan, IIRC, if you leave your baby to roast in a car and die, you won't be punished either - again, the orphan defense. You've already suffered the loss, so if you just want to kill the screaming brat, leave it in a hot car and you're golden.
There was a case in the US where a girl wanted to abort her 6 month fetus, and begged her boyfriend to kick her in the stomach and kill it. He refused at first, but she talked him into it. He jumped on her stomach while she lay down, and caused a miscarriage. What was so bad about that one was that HE was the only one charged - she got off scot free.
We're already most of the way there. Our descent into evil and lawlessness is pretty much in the bag, innit? Feminists are all for anything that lets women off the hook for crimes, and they're a pretty powerful lobby themselves, so whaddaya expect?
Posted by: Anniee451 at May 7, 2009 4:37 AM
I really can't believe what I'm reading. In Texas, no less? I thought the baby killer Obama was bad, with his born alive thing, but this is completely outrageous! WTF???
Cave ahht, are you just being a troll? If not, please explain.
Posted by: Karin at May 7, 2009 6:07 AM
"I am perfectly okay with this."
Well, being liberal scum, I'm sure that you are. And hopefully you'll be in a morgue on a steel gurney with your toe tagged very soon...
Posted by: Dave M at May 7, 2009 7:18 AM
I like that Jay, people who act like infants and run this country ought to be inluded!
Gone are the good ole days when youu could driv to Nebraska and unload insolent teenagers. Now poor moms can head to Texas to relieve their unwanted burdens.
This same Rep opposes a law requiring aortionists to offer mothers and ultrasound so that they can see that the baby is not just a ball of cells but - gasp! - a formed human being.
No slippery slope, eh?
Posted by: Mandy at May 7, 2009 7:39 AM
