Imagine being a police officer in Ocean City MD, conducting a routine search of someone’s home. Now imagine the horror on your face as you open the trunk in the bedroom and find two dead infants in a plastic bag. Imagine then conducting a search of a motor home owned by the same woman and finding yet a third dead infant. Now pretend for a moment we live in a nation without laws, and this woman will not be charged with a crime for these three dead babies. That’s a horrible thought isn’t it?

Sadly, the above situation is not only possible in America, it is actually happening. A total of four small infants were found dead at the home of Christy Freeman and her boyfriend Raymond W. Goodman Jr. Thanks in large part to Maryland’s 2005 fetal homicide law, Freeman has been charged with first degree murder for the death of the most recent child after doctors determined the child was a viable infant.

Where this case becomes complicated is that prior to Maryland enacting the fetal homicide law, it was largely believed that the Supreme Court gave women the undeniable right to kill their infant child. According to prosecutors if the infants were too young to be considered viable outside the womb, Freeman can’t be charged with murder. 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 intentionally caused the deaths of these children.

Imagine living in a country where a woman might not be prosecuted for killing her infant child, because at the time, there was no law on the books expressly prohibiting it!

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Abortion, Supreme Court