[ClearCase_guy]

Practicing medicine without a license. A serious offense.

Bastard.

[doug from upland]

A little different than Hawaii, huh?

[Ignatz]

He shoulda done it in Hawaii. He'd be a free man! /sarcasm

[TheCrusader]

"Back in January, 25-year-old Robert Elliott repeatedly beat his pregnant wife, intending to harm their unborn child, and abusing her in front of their children. Prosecutors say Elliott's abuse caused major trauma to the fetus...his wife eventually miscarried."

I'm confused. According to the U.S. Supreme Court the fetus is not a human being, and hence cannot be protected by Constitutional law. I understand them jailing the guy for attacking his wife, but a fetus is simply a clump of tissue, a "part of a woman's body". So how does the government put this guy away for harming a useless clump of tissue with no Constitutional protection?

Of course my question is rhetorical, but this all seems like a brazen, 'in-your-face' double standard to me. If she goes to a 'clinic' to have the baby's limbs torn off and its body disposed of in a dumpster, then the killer gets rewarded with a doctor's fee instead of being charged with murder. What this all really means is that American mother's have been given the legal authority to determine if their babies are human or not. Legalized abortion has got the be the greatest insult to God ever perpetrated by man.

[TheSpottedOwl]

"I feel with 15 years confinement, you're going to make the changes you believe you're going to make. You'll be able to get the medication and the help you need," Tlusty told Elliott after he handed down the sentence.

Judge Tlusty made a good call. Hopefully, his wife can rebuild her mind and realize that she's better off without her "husband".

[wildbill]

About a week ago, a similar case was dismissed in another jurisdiction (California?) because the appeals court ruled the foetus was not a person.

How can it be murder in one state and not in another? Shouldn't this be resolved at the SCT?

[F.J. Mitchell]

I have no sympathy for this bastard and for his crime, the sentence is mild. But isn't it ironic that had the mother sought a licensed professional baby murderer to create the same results, as far as the baby's fate is concerned; no crime would have been committed?

Strange how according to jurisprudence, ignorance of the law is no excuse, while ignorant, nay, stupid laws are not only excused but rigidly enforced as if they made even a smidgen of sense.

Life is funny, in a remorseless, tragic and asinine way.