Originally posted by (e)
But she murdered her baby.
If someone tells you "Don\'t light your dog on fire, you\'ll kill it."
Would you light your dog on fire?
If you do light your dog on fire, you\'d be charged with animal abuse. Yet you chose to light the dog on fire even though someone told you the dog wouldn\'t live through it.
No, that\'s an active act. Her act would be causing a death by innaction... and it\'s not a guaranteed death, but more probable death. Best charge I think they can actually win with would be manslaughter, by arguing death through indifference.
The fact is it\'s her body, her choice. If she doesn\'t want to go into surgery, is afraid, for instance, we can\'t force her.
Some people turn down blood transplants for their beliefs - and transplants for their children. We don\'t brand them murderers when they die refusing medical attention for it, and we can\'t brand her for it.