Remember the guffaws we heard when we said that killing babies in the womb leads to killing babies out of the womb. We were told we were being ridiculous. There’s no slippery slope, we were told.
Well, it turns out that the slope is pretty darn slippery. A mom just received no jail time for killing her kid. So we’re just heading happily down that slope. I don’t even think we’ve thudded at the bottom yet. I fear we’re just picking up speed.
LifeSiteNews.com reports:
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.
“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.
Katrina Effert of Wetaskiwin, Alberta gave birth secretly in her parents’ downstairs bathroom on April 13, 2005, and then later strangled the newborn and threw his body over a fence. She was 19 at the time.
She has been found guilty of second-degree murder by two juries, but both times the judgment was thrown out by the appeals court. In May, the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned her 2009 murder conviction and replaced it with the lesser charge of infanticide.
On Friday, Effert got a three-year suspended sentence from Justice Joanne Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. As a result, she was able to walk out of court, though she will have to abide by certain conditions.
You can continue reading if you feel like despairing at LifeSiteNews.com.
September 12, 2011 at 11:35 pm
I think this is the key paragraph from the article:
According to Justice Veit, Canada’s lack of an abortion law indicates that “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.”
I see. Because we have unlimited abortion in Canada and people are cool with that, killing a baby after it's born is no big deal either. I knew judges in this country were liberal, but that one takes the cake. I bet if I poured a can of motor oil down the sewer I'd get a stiffer punishment than this woman got.
September 13, 2011 at 12:11 am
Matt, could you please refrain from calling little people "kids". That's a billygoat. C:
September 13, 2011 at 8:44 am
Canada + Liberal Female Judge + Defenseless Infant + Increasingly Irrelevant Church. What did you expect? I, for one, am not surprised.
September 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm
How sad. It amazes me how many people continue to buy the lies that Satan continues to feed people. He's stuffing apples down our throats and telling us that by definition its our "choice".
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!
September 13, 2011 at 7:26 pm
1. The mother was an adult (two years over age, even), not a minor. Usually, that would be the signal for some kind of punishment.
2. The baby wasn't just laid aside somewhere, either, as freaked out women often do. She actually strangled the baby, and then she threw the body over a fence. That's not anything you'd be allowed to do to a dog or a baby squirrel.
3. Judges often want to be lenient, because they feel the mother is temporarily insane. This judge wants to be lenient, because she thinks it's totally okay to strangle babies and throw human remains out for the dogs to eat. This judge thinks all Canadian babies are Dead Tissue Walking, I guess.
September 14, 2011 at 4:45 am
Canadians also sympathize with the idea of removing incompetent judges too. Someone should strangle the appeals court judge and throw her over the fence.
September 15, 2011 at 5:44 am
Did I read the original article right? Seems Ms. Effert received no
punishment for strangling a newborn, but was jailed for 16 days for
tossing the body into her neighbor's yard.
What kind of priorities do they have in Canada?