The State of Maryland is said to be contemplating the decriminalization of killing infants who are less than a month old.
The stated motivation for the change is to provide relief for mothers who abandon their infants. Compassionate(?) law-makers do not feel that those mothers should face the full weight of the criminal justice system. It will also reduce the load on overworked courts and jails.
Since infants are totally dependent on care from adults, refusing care to an infant will kill them as surely as holding them under water for ten minutes.
The ramifications are frightening. If removing care from an infant results in its death, and if that death is not considered a crime, what prevents a hospital from unplugging a baby in a neonatal unit because a baby with better health insurance showed up and can be billed for that service?
For that matter, what if a janitor or nurse or administrator or visitor decides they do not like a baby. Maybe it is the wrong color or nationality or too much work. What stops them from pulling the plug on the baby?
Maybe the janitor or nurse or administrator or visitor decides to unplug EVERY baby of that color or nationality or decides to unplug EVERY baby because GAIA or they are mad at the world.
In the case of somebody walking in off-the-street, laws against trespassing? In the case of employees employer policies where they MIGHT get fired IF they get caught?
Decriminalizing the killing of babies is not the way to deal with mothers who abandon or kill their babies even if it is cost-effective and will gain applause from some uber-Progressives.
Does evil in this country know no bounds? Little wonder God's judgement is at hand.
ReplyDeleteIt knows no bounds and is in ascendancy. Our fall will be spoken of around camp fires for millennia to come.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot cheapen life in some areas without cheapening it in all. It is a slow walk from this to allowable homicide in many situations.
ReplyDeleteThey will be adding people over 80 to that law also.--ken
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-HCHCuHMg
ReplyDeleteJust another step down the slippery slope to state sanctioned murder of anyone the state decides needs murdering...and by state I mean the commie left.
ReplyDeleteWhat coyoteken48 said. Age discrimination is against the law you know.
ReplyDeleteEvery polling dataset that I've seen has concluded that Americans are against abortion in general, and against indiscriminate abortion overwhelmingly. That lawmakers/policy makers think this initiative is a good idea is yet another indication that life is too easy in our society - so easy, that life itself is being devalued, even in the face of clear opposition. How long will people remain passive?
This proposed law says that you can kill babies less than One Month old. That's not age discrimination? The laws say how old you have to be to vote, buy beer and collect Social Security. And how old you girlfriend has to be if you have sex. Isn't that age discrimination? Laws don't apply to what government wants to do. They just declare it and we obey. ---ken
DeleteMy point was that once murder is sanctioned for babies, it's implicitly sanctioned for anyone, or at least facilitated - until explicitly defined otherwise.
DeleteThey already kill (euthanize) people in certain European countries against their will. The concept is monstrous.
So, no age limit on legislators?
ReplyDeleteIt's only fair!
After all, "it's for the chirrun"!