Life imitates art
This may be the most disturbing thing I have ever heard in my life. Law & Order did something like this once. I never thought that this happened in the real world. But it does.
Imagine, if you can, developing the will to strangle a pregnant woman almost to death, then cutting her open and removing the as-yet unborn baby fro her womb. Then you leave her to die, and lie to your husband about giving birth.
Is this just an extension of the entitlement mentality that has been used repeatedly to justify property crimes? “I want it, you have it, I’m taking it”. Or is there a lower undercurrent of devolution going on in our society?
Clearly, Lisa Montgomery is a monster. She’s not human, and therefore, in my opinion, deserving of nothing less than death. I cannot begin to imagine what Bobbie’s husband is going through right now. The only consolation available for the moment is that he at least gets his daughter back.
UPDATE: Apparently I was wrong - this has been happening with increasing frequency. How much farther down do we have to go, really?
Political Spin:
I haven’t heard any outrage yet from the usual sources that are outraged when something bad happens to a woman. Probably because those sources would have been perfectly willing to let Bobbie abort the baby if she decided she didn’t want it, even at this late date. So much for “unviable tissue mass”.