Pro-abortion activists like to opine that if abortion is "safe, legal, and rare," then mothers who don’t want their children won’t turn to vacuum cleaners and clothes hangers when they decide to abort their children. But the self-abortionists are still out there. Apparently on the very day that her baby was due, one such self-abortionist decided to use a gun.
"The defense attorney for a woman accused of shooting herself in the stomach and killing her unborn child says an abortion charge won’t hold up in court.
"Suffolk’s lead prosecutor says his office is still investigating the crime.
"Tammy Skinner, 22, is charged with inducing an abortion and filing a false police report. Prosecutors have already said they plan to drop a firearms charge because it doesn’t apply."
Prosecutors are still trying to figure out exactly what crime the woman committed. They may not get a self-induced abortion charge to stick, they’ve dropped a firearms charge, and Virginia’s fetal homicide law only provides justice to pre-born children whose mothers wanted them. That’s because the law is aimed at prosecuting those who kill the "fetus of another."
Before legalized abortion, the charge would have been simple: Murder. There also would not have been this kind of sympathetic clucking for the murderer:
"’I understand that people feel moral outrage over this,’ Martingayle said. ‘And there is likely to be some criminal punishment. But perhaps [Ms. Skinner] been punished enough.’"
Tell that to the baby girl who was shot by her own mother.
