Blue Like You
Conservative musings - formerly Joanne’s Journey
One murder charge or two?
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Interesting program tonight on CTV’s The Verdict.
The question was surrounding murders of pregnant women, and whether there should be two murder charges or one.
Most of the arguments on both sides were nothing new, but I did catch one intriguing point that the opponents of the two-charge option were trying to advance - that there is no gain in making the extra murder charge because in Canada just one life sentence is served for first-degree murders, or something along that line (if I’ve got that wrong, please correct me).
Anyway, the other side made the point that if a woman and her already born child were both murdered, then there would be two murder charges; so what’s the difference?
The website should be updated soon with the new episode. Definitely worth the time to watch what continues to be a very emotional and complex issue.
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Update: Great article here by Father Raymond J. De Souza - There’s no justice in silence (Post Oct. 25):
…The desire to maintain our permissive abortion regime should not prevent the criminal law from addressing the reality of crimes against pregnant women. A crime against an expectant mother is something different — there is real trauma to the mother, if she survives the violence, resulting from the injury or death to her child — to say nothing of the child. The Roxanne Fernando case makes it all the more clear; without the child, there would have been no crime. The law should not have to pretend otherwise.
Excellent point.
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