Murder, no, but if they can prove beyond doubt that her coke-snorting killed the child, then I've no probs with the little bitch doing some time.
Religion of Peace....oh wait this is in the USA!"Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder chargesWomen's rights campaigners see the creeping criminalisation of pregnant women as a new front in the culture wars over abortionRennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child.Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit – though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby's death – they charged her with the "depraved-heart murder" of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.Gibbs is the first woman in Mississippi to be charged with murder relating to the loss of her unborn baby. But her case is by no means isolated. Across the US more and more prosecutions are being brought that seek to turn pregnant women into criminals."Women are being stripped of their constitutional personhood and subjected to truly cruel laws," said Lynn Paltrow of the campaign National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW). "It's turning pregnant women into a different class of person and removing them of their rights."Bei Bei Shuai, 34, has spent the past three months in a prison cell in Indianapolis charged with murdering her baby. On 23 December she tried to commit suicide by taking rat poison after her boyfriend abandoned her.Shuai was rushed to hospital and survived, but she was 33 weeks pregnant and her baby, to whom she gave birth a week after the suicide attempt and whom she called Angel, died after four days. In March Shuai was charged with murder and attempted foeticide and she has been in custody since without the offer of bail.In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state's "chemical endangerment" law. Introduced in 2006, the statute was designed to protect children whose parents were cooking methamphetamine in the home and thus putting their children at risk from inhaling the fumes.Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way. During her pregnancy her foetus was diagnosed with possible Down's syndrome and doctors suggested she consider a termination, which Kimbrough declined as she is not in favour of abortion.The baby was delivered by caesarean section prematurely in April 2008 and died 19 minutes after birth.Six months later Kimbrough was arrested at home and charged with "chemical endangerment" of her unborn child on the grounds that she had taken drugs during the pregnancy – a claim she has denied."That shocked me, it really did," Kimbrough said. "I had lost a child, that was enough."She now awaits an appeal ruling from the higher courts in Alabama, which if she loses will see her begin a 10-year sentence behind bars. "I'm just living one day at a time, looking after my three other kids," she said. "They say I'm a criminal, how do I answer that? I'm a good mother."Women's rights campaigners see the creeping criminalisation of pregnant women as a new front in the culture wars over abortion, in which conservative prosecutors are chipping away at hard-won freedoms by stretching protection laws to include foetuses, in some cases from the day of conception. In Gibbs' case defence lawyers have argued before Mississippi's highest court that her prosecution makes no sense. Under Mississippi law it is a crime for any person except the mother to try to cause an abortion."If it's not a crime for a mother to intentionally end her pregnancy, how can it be a crime for her to do it unintentionally, whether by taking drugs or smoking or whatever it is," Robert McDuff, a civil rights lawyer asked the state supreme court.McDuff told the Guardian that he hoped the Gibbs prosecution was an isolated example. "I hope it's not a trend that's going to catch on. To charge a woman with murder because of something she did during pregnancy is really unprecedented and quite extreme."He pointed out that anti-abortion groups were trying to amend the Mississippi constitution by setting up a state referendum, or ballot initiative, that would widen the definition of a person under the state's bill of rights to include a foetus from the day of conception.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/24/america-pregnant-women-murder-charges
Not murder - free her.
Bwahahahahahahah!!@!!! this bitch is 15... LOL
Not a child or even a baby but a fetus - HUGE difference.
Bad argument. Are you a father? Not being a prick but with that logic if a man stabs or shoots a pregnant woman in the stomach and kills the fetus then there should be no charges for the act on the fetus???
And on the flip side, going by what you say, anyone who gets an abortion is guilty of murder.
And on the flip side, going by what you say, anyone who gets an abortion is guilty of murder. Why not start arresting women who smoke or drink while pregnant, since that doesn't exactly help the "baby"? Where do you draw the line and who decides?
I knew that one was coming. And I am for leglized abortion in the event of rape or if the fetus is extremely sickly or HIV/AIDS related. It is such a grey area that can be argued a 100 ways. My son-in-law's sister had a crack baby and I seen it shortly after she was born. I will never forget that site. I also served on a jury where the parents let their kid die because of their religous beliefs. So my view is a little warped. Here is the case I was a juror on:http://www.rickross.com/reference/firstborn/firstborn27.html
Cool, like you say, it can be argued a hundred ways and in fact, has been done to death here before, pardon the pun.That link you posted is sad. I'd say that couple was more stupid than malicious.
