[About Steven Smith, who suffered death by lethal injection in Ohio for raping to death his six-month-old step-daughter Autumn]
1. Did any bloggers herewith attend the Planned Parenthood/ACLU vigil at Lucasville?
2. Wasn't the baby still part of the woman's body, or did Smith wait a few too many months?
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... What?
Am I understanding this correctly?
Are you seriously trying to turn the death of a living, breathing, born child into a point against abortion?
Not just that, but death caused by the disgusting actions of some sicko?
Is that what you're comparing people who are pro-choice to?
I just... what?
...
Perhaps I'll come up with something more eloquent later, but this has kind of stopped my thought processes.
2. Wasn't the baby still part of the woman's body, or did Smith wait a few too many months
The irony is that had Smith raped his partner while she was pregnant, a lot of 'pro-life' people would have said that that was "legitimate rape" and nothing to worry about.
Oh Christ. I'm sort of numb and cold right now. This level of cruelty and asshattery is unreal.
1. What the hell? I get that it's a swipe at PP, pro choicers, and abortion, but I'm honestly confused and horrified right now. A child is dead, are you really this self centered and shallow to insult Autumn's memory like this?
2. You do understand that a child no matter how young is an individual with all the rights accorded to one by the law? You do understand that a child is a human being and not an extension of the mother being when they're out of the womb? Yes? Then why in the name of god are you using the death of a child via rape to take a petty swipe at Pro-Choice people? It makes you look callous, ignorant, and incredibly petty to say the least. This is a tragedy of the highest order, and yet you reduce it to..this.
I'm against the death penalty.
He didn't just kill the poor child, he raped her, and thereby caused her death.
A baby is a sentient, breathing human being. An embryo doesn't have functioning brain or lungs yet.
In my country you can only decide on your own about an abortion up to week 18, after that there has to be some kind of medical problem for an abortion to be allowed.
I guess that after week 30 or something, it would be considered a premature birth where the newborn didn't survive, or a stillbirth.
Hence, he would have waited about 10 months after the legal limit of "abortion-on-demand", in my country.
Besides, almost all "abortions-on-demand" are done well before week 12 (remember, the embryo is seen as 4-5 weeks along when the woman realizes she's pregnant, as you count from the last menstruation).
The tone of the second question leads me to think that this particular statement (this is apparently two different comments from two different people) is a joke. Which still means that you are a sick, sad, delusional person either way.
The first one? Your self-righteous, deeply selfish attention whoring is why the "pro-life" movement is derided and spat upon.
Wow, and here I was, thinking that A Serbian Film (unless you want to overdose on brain-bleach, I highly recommend against Googling that) was a work of fiction.
> Wasn't the baby still part of the woman's body, or did Smith wait a few too many months?
I know Autumn hadn't gotten old enough yet, but I wonder if the OP can pass the mirror test...
Why am I not surprised this yahoo would use something like this only to further his cause? Oh right, because, say it with me, once the baby's out of the womb, pro-lifers couldn't care less.
I'd associate this clown with a vulture but that would be an insult to those magnificent, carrion-eating raptors.
May the loving inhabitants of Paradise give this young soul a big hug. At least she's free from that monster....but the way she went was horrific.
And that slime will now experience what it was like for that child!
Tho this be madness, yet there is method in't. This person is trying to make a connection--however tenuous--between abortion and rape. It's still bogus, tho, because those few months are pretty damn important.
...Wow. Just wow.
You sociopathic monster. How dare you even entertain the notion that this travesty is even remotely comparable to getting an abortion?! I sincerely hope you never have children of your own if you can so callously twist suffering like this to fit your own agenda.
I've lurked on this site for a long time, but I just had to come out of the background to comment on this.
The gist I'm getting is that abortion opponents can't get enough traction with their current anecdotes so they are starting to shoehorn in just about anything close in desperation.
(As far as the submitted comments, not the article itself)
Confused?
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