September 14, 2011

Canadian Woman Strangles Newborn; Walks Free

We really need it.

"An Alberta judge has let a woman who strangled her newborn son walk free by arguing that Canada’s absence of a law on abortion signals that Canadians 'sympathize' with the mother."
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“'We live in a country where there is no protection for children in the womb right up until birth and now this judge has extended the protection for the perpetrator rather than the victim, even though the child is born and as such should be protected by the court,' said Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition."

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This is so sad.  My heart literally aches.  As one acquaintance asked, "so when do Dads get the same power to kill?"  Read the full article here



image - http://livinghour.org/blog/progressive_christianity/justice-the-long-arc-of-the-moral-universe/

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