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I’m sorry Mr rapist. Can you please run down the street to Walgreens and grab a condom before you force yourself inside me and psychologically scar me for life. If not that’s ok and I will carry your baby and maybe even disease for the rest of my life.

Please, absolutely fuck if with your nonsense.

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Before I read the article I thought that euthanasia sounded like a very soft way to refer to the death penalty.

I think that more places should offer euthanasia as an option, with multiple doctors opinions separate from family influence of course.

So many people suffer for so long without the ability to make a walk end of life decision. The only thing we let them do right now is not take food or water and that takes forever. They end up asking for water and all they will do is dab a sponge on their mouth so it's not so cracked and dry but once you ask to stop being given food and water no matter how much you beg they won't go back on it.

So then nurses have to watch these elderly and/or very sick people die slowly from dehydration and starvation, being begged for sitting to drink and having to deny it.

I think euthanasia is a lot less cruel.

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That part.

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Wait what?

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She was suffering from severe post pardum psychosis and her husband was continuing to pump babies into her despite their doctor telling him to stop

Here is the logic. Force the woman to have the baby and when it turns 18 selective service with republican grooming along the way. And the kid had better not be gay. I say put up the billboard in front of the Supreme court and their houses. Nothing worse than a born-again hypocrite.

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Great points. I should have added that my scenario is super rare. Still, it happens and when it does it gets a lot of headlines. Aberrations like this are very hard for most people to get their heads around and because of that there's not a lot of empathy for the perpetrator. edit: changed a word

The impulse to protect one’s children is, however, just as ancient - and more widespread. And it is precisely because it is so natural and widespread that more professional attention should be given to ‘unnatural feelings’ among parents, whether by OBGYNs or therapists or friends, whether feelings of apathy or something more violent. Even something as common as absent feelings of bonding accompanying postpartum depression is given scant attention, while the same issue in fathers is normalised; the result, in both cases, is that the problems are left untreated, and don’t always go away by themselves.

I know absolutely nothing about parenting or children but the knowledge that this is the social, taboo-fraught environment in which I would have to seek psychological assistance if needed makes me loath to start a family in the first place.

Edit: to clarify, I find the mother’s actions abhorrent and don’t mean to sympathise with a family annihilator, but I don’t think that adds much insight to the discussion

Prison based punishments have proven to be a terrible deterrent over time. No party would benefit and funds would be spent keeping her housed and alive.

A better solution is either rehabilitation efforts or as they see it, allowing her to die.

soo all social media sites then?

I was born in Belgium as both of my parents were in the military. It was off base, and I so wish I could get dual citizenship. My birth certificate is even in French. I know this is a random comment, but your post made just think about it.

It was also very clear that her husband was forcing her to have more children despite being told over and over again she wasn't mentally well enough to handle it

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The impulse to kill your children is ancient. When a mother or father sees their family unit breaking up or becomes socially ostracized they will see their fate as sealed. A mother would not be able to provide for children by herself. The children's future will be bleak if not ending after starvation or predation. Leaving them to the leopards is worse than killing them yourself. Humans have been dealing with this prospect a lot longer than we have had the desire or means to help those kids. Most people choosing to kill their children are also in abusive relationships. I don't know the particulars of this woman's case. I would think they have considered all of this. Still, it's a fascinating, rare throwback to a fundamental behavior.

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In addition to the court costs, there's the addition housing costs associated with death row. A normal housing unit may have 50 or 60 inmates in a dorm to two guards. A death row unit will have 10-1 man cells to 1 guard. Even if there's only one death row inmate. Getting close to execution it will be one guard watching that one inmate separate from other housing units.

They argue that it's different because they're executing an adult that made bad choices and is facing the consequences. While taking a pill to induce miscarriage is killing a poor innocent baby.

They even extend this logic to pregnancies, resulting from rape. They can't be aborted because that would be "punishing an innocent child for the actions of someone else."