Tran is playing onto the Asian stereotype where they think individual lives are meaningless and life is cheap.
It unnerves me a bit to see a Vietnamese pushing this stuff. Viets are mostly much more protective of children. But then, with a first name Dorothy she is a second or third generation hyphennate and likely retains little of cultural tradition and attitudes. (as a side note, TRAN as a Vietnamese surname and is said “Chun”).