http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x900643tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 05:59 PM
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Woman Who Attempted Suicide While Pregnant is Accused of Murder Updated at 5:59 PM
Source: The Guardian
A woman accused of murdering her four-day-old baby girl by trying to kill herself with rat poison while pregnant has become a cause célèbre for US women's groups and civil liberties organisations.
Bei Bei Shuai, 34, a restaurant owner who moved to the US from China 10 years ago, was pregnant and planning to marry her boyfriend until she learned late last year that he was already married and he would be abandoning her.
A few days later, on 23 December, she went to a hardware store, bought rat poison pellets, went back to her flat in Indianapolis and swallowed some. But she did not die immediately and was persuaded by friends to go to hospital.
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But in March she was arrested and charged with murder and attempted foeticide. She now faces life imprisonment.
more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/15/woman-attem...
Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 06:01 PM
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2. This is such total bullshit
It's just a patriarchal DA who's trying to polish his halo and make a big name for himself among the fundamentalist crowd.
This poor gal needs psychotherapy, not some idiot attacking her for seeing no way out but suicide.
tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 06:02 PM
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3. And it would set a terrifying precedent.
WTF are you talking about? Killing someone is already illegal.
FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 06:02 PM
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4. Out-****ing-rageous! Updated at 5:46 PM
We HAVE to win our country back from the fetus-worshiping, people-hating, totalitarian children of hell ... I mean fundies.
The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 06:03 PM
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5. The Prosecutor, Sir, Badly Needs To Meet A Five Gallon Can Of Gasoline And A Book Of Matches
"Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my business to arrange the meeting."
virgogal (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 06:10 PM
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6. Caffeine,nicotine,and alcohol are no-nos while pregnant-----if a baby
died 4 days after birth would a mother who used those products be up on murder charges?
This is total,utter madness.
Apples and oranges. The mother didn't harm the baby from her lifestyle, she killed the baby with rat poison.
RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-15-11 06:22 PM
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7. Yet another WTF moment! There are several now daily. n/t
Finally a DUmmy I agree with.
Do they not realize that the child was alive for four days outside the womb?
The murder charge is correct.
