To: ecommerceman who wrote (124087 ) 1/29/2001 11:32:52 AM From: Johannes Pilch Read Replies (1) | Respond to It is unreasonable to expect there can be little or no duress in the case of a woman who allows her own child to be murdered. Pregnant women are typically under quite a great deal of duress, even if they are so cavalier as to have five or ten abortions. This fact alone distinguishes them from the average murderer. So while the law should certainly turn its attention to women who become accomplices in the murder of their children, it should not typically turn upon them with the same force it would turn upon mass-murderers. The extenuating circumstances are typically greater in the cases of women who are accomplices in the murder of their unborn children relative to the average murderer. This is plain horse sense—buddy.
