I think that you may be making a mistake I often commit of confusing price and penalty. Certainly many people perish due to their own poorly thought out actions and the price for this stupidity is death. However, this case surrounds the issue of whether death should be inflicted upon someone who was maimed but not killed by her poor decisions. The use of illegal drugs in and of itself is not a capital crime and those guilty of it are not executed. The fact that this activity played a part in her condition should not be a consideration in the deliberate taking of her life anymore than if she had been in an automobile accident while breaking the speed limit. The decision about whether to starve this poor women to death should be made without consideration of the nature of the accidental that led to her condition but rather the morality of each respective course of action in this present circumstance.
All that is fine in theory, and perhaps in a courtroom.
However, we do know what lead to this, and along the way she put her baby at extreme risk.
If that action alone doesn’t deserve death, please tell me what will deserve the death penalty.
In the process of nearly killing her baby, she slipped into this coma.
Many people would prefer to see her starve to death for her actions against the baby alone. Include me in that group.
They need a different case to advance what is otherwise a noble cause. This case, defending a would-be killer, just sullies and discredits everyone involved.