If it were the mother’s desire to kill the unborn baby, then it would have been just an unviable tissue mass
AP:
COLVILLE, Wash. - An 18-year-old pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-girlfriend’s nearly full-term fetus and was sentenced to more than six years in prison.
Charles D. Young received 76 1/2 months in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to first-degree solicitation to commit manslaughter. State law allows for such a count when a viable fetus is the intended target.
Prosecutors allege Young, then 17, offered an undercover officer posing as a hit man $3,250 last October to injure his estranged 17-year-old girlfriend so badly that her fetus would die.
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Young’s attorney, Bevan Maxey, said his client is an intelligent young man who got bad advice.
Hiring a hitman to kill your unborn child in his or her mother’s womb sure is bad advice. If he were so intelligent, he should have recognized such advice as inherently bad, and not acted upon it. That’s assuming that someone else planted the idea in his head, which is probably his attorney’s propaganda. I think Mr. Young came up with the idea on his own.
If the baby’s mother wanted to “terminate the pregnancy,” in essence doing herself what Mr. Young wanted to have done, then The System would be cheering her for having made “a choice” and “exercising her reproductive rights.”
