Infanticide? Canadian Judge Has No Problem With It

A Canadian judge gave a 19-year-old mom a three year suspended sentence for strangling her newborn son and tossing him over into a neighbor's yard. LifeSiteNews quoted the judge excusing the woman based on Canada's abortion laws:

The part of the ruling Judge Veit issued that received significant opposition related to Veit’s decision that Canada’s acceptance of legalized abortion entitled Effert to kill her child. Judge Veit ruled, according to multiple media reports, that because Canada allows abortions it reflects how “while many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less than ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted pregnancy, they generally understand, accept and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support.”

“Naturally, Canadians are grieved by an infant’s death, especially at the hands of the infant’s mother, but Canadians also grieve for the mother,” said Veit, who said that, while what Effert did was “very grave,” there were no aggravating factors. Prosecutors said the aggravating factors included how Effert initially lied to police about whether she was a virgin and how she initially tried to blame the father of the child for her actions.

“I am of the view that those actions, along with the action of throwing her baby’s body over her back fence, are painful evidence of Ms. Effert’s irrational behavior as a result of her disturbed mind,”the judge said, according to the Sun News Network. “In summary, this is a classic infanticide case – the killing of a newborn or a justborn after a hidden pregnancy by a mother who was alone and unsupported.”

Uh...let's see. Being "alone and unsupported" (while living in your parents' home) gives you the right to kill your newborn without legal consequence. Hey, why stop at newborns. Why not allow parents to kill their children after a divorce or after the death of a spouse. After all, raising children alone certainly reflects "onerous demands."

Life is cheap these days. Kill babies before birth, commit infaticide after birth, kill off the kids your boyfriend doesn't like, kill your elderly parents, kill yourself with a little help from your doc. Talk about a culture of death! But don't let it get you down. Think of the benefit to the planet when all those carbon footprints are eliminated.

Grape kool-aid, anyone?