[andyt]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100923/national/infanticide_challenge

The woman killed two kids. Infanticide only applys to children under 1 year old. So unless they were twins, she did it twice.

Infanticide is a bullshit law anyway - Just part of how we let women get away with murder 'cause we want to hang onto our ideal that they're all angels.

[desertdude]

What seriously, Infantacide is not a crime in canada or considered less of a crime than murder ? I'm sure I reading something wrong here.

[Dragom]

But we can't hold women responsible for their actions!

Infanticide < Murder

[andyt]

desertdude wrote:

8O What seriously, Infantacide is not a crime in canada or considered less of a crime than murder ? I'm sure I reading something wrong here.

Women who kill their babies that are less than one year old are often only charged with infanticide. Maximum 5 yr sentence and often they just walk, because the poor dear was a prisoner to her hormones.

[desertdude]

WTF !

[Brenda]

Altho I do NOT condone it, being a mom, knowing what hormones and Post Partum Depression does to one, there is a difference between murder in the 1st degree and "infanticide".

[andyt]

Then tie their tubes so they can't do it again.

[Brenda]

andyt wrote:

Then tie their tubes so they can't do it again.

It isn't necessarily true that when you have had 1 PPD, you will get another.

They need help more than anything else. Pre-natal care is very important. Post-natal care might be even more important. Most women are totally normal, but some are not, and it is up to the mid-wife/pre-natal care giver/post-natal care giver to spot the abnormal ones.
A family doctor doesn't always see PPD's, women don't necessarily go to a family doctor with their complaints, because the doctor (AND their friends...) say "ahh, you'll get over it".
A PPD or PPP (Post Partum Psychosis) is not something women are proud of. It's seen as a "lack of strength", a "Jeeeeesh, you can't even handle a baby!". Or it is just shoved under the rug not taken seriously. Until something goes REALLY wrong.

[andyt]

I'm sorry, there's just too much of this letting women off because of their hormones. One woman in England got off from killing her boyfriend because she had pms. I mean either women are responsible for their actions, same as men, or if not, we have to lock them up when they're pmsing or after giving birth. I just seems to be they want it both ways here.

[desertdude]

All I see is double standards, in that case that guy who was high on caffine should also be let go, aswell as all the voice hearing loons andy crime done under the influence of Alcohol.

Its about time people are held responsible for their actions. Hormones is a pathetic excuse at best.

[Brenda]

Pathetic?
You are obviously NOT a woman. Nor did you have children. Or given birth.

Like I said, I don't condone anything, but hormones being a pathetic excuse? That's insulting.

People with mental health problems are "let off", but a PPP is "pathetic"???

[desertdude]

Yes I would call it pathetic if you kill your child no matter what the fuck the reason was. Its pathetic.

[Brenda]

BTW, men who commit the same crime, also get charged for infanticide. Men just don't kill babies that often.

[Brenda]

desertdude wrote:

Yes I would call it pathetic if you kill your child no matter what the fuck the reason was. Its pathetic.

That is not what you just said. You said "hormones are a pathetic excuse".

[desertdude]

Lemme rephrase, If you kill your child for any excuse including hormones its pretty much a pathetic and lame excuse. So basically yes.