But others might have been. If she didn't want it, why not let someone else have it?
I chose, with some searching, to exercise my constitutional right and ended her birth.
Not her birth, but her life.
I did what was right for me, for my family, for my work, for my husband and for my three children.
Her work? As a minister, God might have preferred it if she had taken a leave and allowed her 4th child to live. Oh, wait, her congregation was more important to her than her own child? They couldn't muddle on for a bit without her? Or maybe one of their group could have embraced a calling and stepped up to fill in. Hmmm.
They choose violence because, although they believe it is bad, it is still better than the alternatives. The "just war" theory assumes that human beings get caught in terrible choices all the time. This freedom is not just for men; it is for women also.
Aaah, this is what makes it a true barf piece, since she has acknolwedged that I can voice my opinion on her piece. War is a terrible, but sometimes Just War is a necessary choice. The presumption is that more lives will be saved because of the action. No one was 'saved' in hers. Only death. Only a one woman 'war' of aggression.
The intentional targeting of innocent persons is a war crime, a damnable ware crime, even in the midst of an otherwise just war.
This woman is right when she equates what she did with murder. It's hellish. Simply hellish.