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Leniency sought for some moms who kill infants
Austin American Statesman ^ | 5.5.2009 | Danny Yadron

Posted on 05/05/2009 11:44:40 AM PDT by wolfcreek

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To: wolfcreek

Soon to come:

“Leniency sought for some who kill the mentally ill”
“Leniency sought for some who kill the terminally ill”
“Leniency sought for some who kill the handicapped”
“Leniency sought for some who kill elderly parents”


21 posted on 05/05/2009 12:10:15 PM PDT by pke
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To: wolfcreek

Aw, come on, it’s just a late abortion.

Isn’t it odd, in many states you can get in trouble for spanking your kids but gosh, if you can convince them that you had the postpartum blues you could conceivably get off easy.


22 posted on 05/05/2009 12:11:46 PM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: wolfcreek
Andrea Yates and Susan Smith simply exercised a woman's right to choose.
23 posted on 05/05/2009 12:14:04 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: SJSAMPLE
Enough with the Texas bashing already! (the Libs are infatuated with us) We're a big state. A lot of chit happens here. <):~o
24 posted on 05/05/2009 12:19:16 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: wolfcreek

No doubt, Obam’s new SCOTUS nominee will manifest the appropriate empathy.


25 posted on 05/05/2009 12:21:08 PM PDT by Mach9 (.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
IMO, It would open the door for other parents to *take out* their kids and plead insanity.
26 posted on 05/05/2009 12:26:35 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: wolfcreek

Just jerking your chain ;)

I spend about two months a year working in Texas.
OK, well, Laredo anyway.
It’s almost like Texas.

Love Texas, but yer mamas are going plumb crazy n’yonder.


27 posted on 05/05/2009 12:36:39 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: wolfcreek

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276087,00.html

“Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family’s Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub. Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter’s arms with a kitchen knife in 2004.

All four of those women were found innocent by reason of insanity. Yates initially was convicted of capital murder, but it was overturned on appeal.”


28 posted on 05/05/2009 12:38:38 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: SJSAMPLE

You were right.

See post #28


29 posted on 05/05/2009 12:39:46 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: mbarker12474

I thought Yates was actually being treated for post-partem psychosis. She had been prescribed some pretty strong meds and was under a doctor’s care when she finally snapped. What she did was horrific, but I, for one, always believed she was truly mentally ill and have always felt her husband was more to blame for 1) not getting her the care she needed and 2) not protecting his children. Add 3) knocking her up a fifth time when she was falling apart with 4. I never thought jail was the appropriate place for her.

Susan Smith on the other hand is an evil, scheming, selfish human who deserves to be in jail.


30 posted on 05/05/2009 12:49:17 PM PDT by YankeeGirl
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To: wolfcreek

We need more excuses for women to commit murder? Let’s see: it’s OK to murder your husband if you say he beat you, it’s OK to murder your husband if you say he mentally bothered you, it’s OK to murder your husband if you claim he molested your children, it’s OK to murder your unborn baby if you say it’s unbearable, it’s OK to murder your unborn baby if you say it’s inconvenient, it’s OK to murder your children if you say they have become inconvenient. Wow, I guess Jack Nicholson’s character in “As Good As It Gets” was correct: to write accurately about women, you write about a man, and remove all rationality and all responsibility.


31 posted on 05/05/2009 12:53:21 PM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Liberalism is a hate crime that can no longer be tolerated.)
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To: Soothesayer
I seriously don’t want to live to see what they legalize next. It would be better to die of cancer than to witness the future of America.

America's future is getting uglier every day, and it's less than 110 days in. I cringe at the thought of seeing what nightmares they have in store for year # 4.

32 posted on 05/05/2009 1:15:43 PM PDT by penowa
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To: pke

“Leniency sought for some who kill crying toddlers”
“Leniency sought for some who kill for money’s sake”


33 posted on 05/05/2009 1:43:31 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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