“It is beginning to resemble a twilight zone script with a disasterous ending.”
I suspect this is what will happen. A husband will ask for a divorce and the wife will kill the children. Her lawyer will use the existing case law, and she probably won’t be punished, or at most a wrist slap. Then it will happen again and again.
Recall, abortion was supposed to be safe, legal and rare. Then, because it was easier, women began using abortion rather than birth control. (In game theory, every change in the rules will be exploited to the max.) Then, abortion was allowed up until birth. The argument against abortion was originally; would you allow it a minute before birth? Then the argument would back up the abortion minute by minute and done that way, abortion made no sense. The argument has been reversed. If you can do it up until birth, why not after birth? Why not at age ten?
To save living ten-year-old children from murder may eventually require outlawing abortion entirely. But that’s only one possible outcome. As the national government starts to deal with the reality of population decline it will look at all the options. But we aren’t there yet. There are lots and lots of murders between here and there.
Excellent analysis.
A friend of my future husband is having a hard time with his childrens’ mother. They’re separated, and she is using his care for the kids to prevent him from working and making money so he can try to gain custody while she sleeps around with people she doesn’t even know. Any time he needs her to watch the kids, she’ll take them and leave them with toxic (I don’t exaggerate) family members; felons, drug addicts, and spiteful women. She doesn’t tell him that’s what she’s doing, he hears it from the kids afterwards. She knows rather than risk his children being with her family, he’d rather have them, thus unable to go to work. She has admitted this in text messages.
She’s threatened to kill them and has already lost custody of one from a prior relationship due to her behavior. He tried to get a TRO put into place which was denied, and local family law told him they can’t help him, presumably because she already retained them. Now he needs to find pro-bono lawyers further from home... It’s a mess.
As my previous comment, this will be normalized. It’s horrific.