Sometimes you read a report and you come to the conclusion that it must be from some far off, foreign undeveloped country, as it seems so out of line with civilized thought. That was how this article struck me, of course it wasn't from some enclave of a primitive warlord, it was in fact, from the land of freedom and opportunity, the supposed leader of free democratic world, the good ol' US of A. No doubt the religious fundamentalists will be behind this injustice. The sooner we rid ourselves of the insanity of the religious fundamentalists, Christian, Muslim, Jew or what ever, the better for all concerned.
Today, the Indiana Court of Appeals heard testimony on the case of Bei Bei Shuai, the pregnant woman who ingested rat poison in a suicide attempt, causing her to go into preterm labor at 33 weeks to a baby girl that died soon after.
Shuai, who survived her attempted suicide only to be arrested and held without bail since this March, has become the poster child for the question as to whether the rights of a fetus actually outweigh the rights of the woman who carries it. Ironically, she has now been imprisoned for nine months — longer than she ever carried the baby girl that she is accused of murdering.
