Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Retroactive abortion

UK Reuters: "Mother murdered her "inconvenient" baby"

LONDON (Reuters) - A mother who smothered to death her three-year-old son because she saw him as an "inconvenience" to her social life, was jailed for life on Monday. ...

"Tara Haigh saw her son as an inconvenience to the life of socialising and dating that she wanted to lead," said Detective Inspector Jo Sidaway.

"Her inability to put Billy's needs ahead of her own culminated in her taking his life prematurely."
Tara should have called the death a "retroactive abortion" and insisted that choosing to have it was a freedom she simply had to have.

After all, what, exactly, is the moral difference between killing your three-year-old and letting your child be born alive, but slaughtered just before its head exits the birth canal?