There was a horrible story in the local news today: A young woman, pregnant, was stabbed to death in an apartment-building lobby.
We read:
The killer targeted the 35-year-old woman’s stomach, according to the building super, who said she watched surveillance-video footage that captured the murder.
“He’s got a knife! He’s going to kill the baby!’ shouted five-months-pregnant Jennifer Irigoyen around 1 a.m. as her attacker pulled her from her third-floor Ridgewood walk-up and down the stairs to the building’s entranceway, horrified witness Maurice Roman Zereoue told The Post.
Police are investigating the slaying as a domestic incident and seeking Irigoyen’s boyfriend for questioning, high-ranking NYPD sources said.
A neighbor who only gave her first name, Kristin, said she heard a man and Irigoyen arguing loudly and then the victim “yelling ”¦ about wanting to protect her baby.
Building super Lisa Raymos said surveillance video showed, “The first time, he stabbed her in the stomach.’’
The killer appears to have been her boyfriend. The victim knew who the killer was, but was unable to say his name:
The mortally wounded woman tried to name her killer but couldn’t choke out the words over the blood pooling in her throat, Zereoue said.
“I asked, ”˜Do you know who he was?’ And she kept nodding yes and waving her arm,’ he said. “She couldn’t speak.
“I kept telling her, ”˜Hang on, hang on, help is coming.’ ’
Irigoyen was rushed to Wyckoff Hospital, but neither she nor her baby could be saved.
Notice the language here: “…wanting to protect her baby.” “…neither she nor her baby could be saved.”
How many people are being referred to here? It certainly sounds like two: a mother and her unborn baby. Not “she nor her body”, or “she nor her clump of cells”. Her baby.
A few days ago, that baby would have been considered the victim of a homicide. The killer would have faced two counts of murder. (And a flaying, followed by a vat of boiling oil, if it were up to me.)
As of January 2019, however, in New York State that baby, that unborn human being, has been defined out of existence. If the baby had been the only one to die, its attacker would face no homicide charge at all.
That child was murdered twice: first by a pen, and then by a knife.
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I guess in a ‘democracy’, people can legally kill off their future citizens. Ain’t progress something.
One pol covers two bases:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/branco-cartoon-the-grim-weeper/
Far as flaying and boiling probably about the best we can hope for, if the perp gets caught, is to have him detained in Brooklyn where as the Governor himself describes it, “[It is] a violation of human decency and dignity” to be housed there.
When a New York governor – and probable presidential candidate – describes anything thusly … well we can rest assured he’s at least humane.
I think we can rest assured we’ll be seeing more of these types of involuntary manslaughters accompanying abortions. At least in New York.
Gov. Cuomo deserves criticism on many grounds, but one must at least grant that he knows the appropriate level of scorn and contempt to direct at the craven bishops too corrupt and cowardly to excommunicate him and his ilk. Cardinal Dolan sacrificed infants to Moloch so he could continue play-acting as a trusted moral adviser to statesmen, but those in power won’t even let him keep up the pathetic charade anymore.
Cardinal Dolan must have played hooky the day they covered Mark 8:36 in seminary.
Quite so, Thersites.
I have no idea what it means to be Catholic in these times.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/31/new-yorks-new-law-abortions-john-c-calhoun-moment/