"Legal, forensic obstacles abound in case of Maryland infants" is the headline on a recent Associated Press/CNN report about the four dead fetuses found in the home of Christy Freeman.
You read that correctly. It says "infants."
The story notes that Freeman "has been charged in the death of one of the pre-term infants, a 26-week-old fetus discovered under her bathroom sink last week."
In order to try to solve this bizarre case, investigators must first determine if these four pre-term infants were Freeman's offspring.
Next, they must establish the ages of the other three pre-term infants in order to see if any of them were at the age of viability and might have survived outside of the womb. "And if they were old enough to live outside the womb, but died before Maryland passed its 2005 fetal homicide law, it may not be a crime even if Freeman caused their deaths," the AP reports.
Not only that, investigators must figure out whether Freeman or someone else was responsible for the deaths of these pre-term infants before birth.
This raises another larger question.
Whose to blame for the deaths of the pre-term infants lost to the more than 48 million abortions that have been performed since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to legalize abortion in 1973?
If four dead fetuses found in a house are infants, then the millions of dead fetuses found in abortion clinics are infants, too.
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan
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