Thread: Judge Dismisses Charges Against Woman Who Killed Her Unborn Child

She shot herself in the stomach...

ABC News: Judge Dismisses Charges Against Woman Who Killed Her Unborn Child

Meh, she didn't kill a person. She was an idiot though =O

I'm all about teaching your kids about gun control when they're young, but that is ridiculous!

Prosecutors say that on the morning she was scheduled to give birth, Skinner drove to an auto dealer's parking lot, took a gun, and shot herself in the belly, killing the fetus in an act of self-abortion. Skinner was charged with carrying out an illegal abortion.

BUT.... a full term pregnancy DOES produce a person. If she had given birth she would have surely killed it. The fact that she killed it while in utero is what saved her. What a horrible person. Someone should take her other kids away, I mean, if she can't afford one of those what will she do to them?

Then she lied about it:

"I couldn't sleep that morning, and I got up out of bed. I got dressed and grabbed my gun. I was having contractions — so scared out of my mind," Skinner said in a written statement to authorities.

"I got somebody to load the gun, because I didn't know how. I got in the car. … Sat there for a while and told the Lord that my mind was not right. I pulled the trigger. … The gun went off."

After Skinner pulled the trigger, she called 911 and told the operator she had gotten into an argument with a man named Travis, who then shot her in the stomach.

THIS is a prime example why you MUST practice SAFE SEX!!

BUT.... a full term pregnancy DOES produce a person.

Oh, yep I missed that. She commited murder.

I'm all about teaching your kids about gun control when they're young, but that is ridiculous!

=D

Is Skinner a criminal?

As complex as the question may be, the answer could come down to one word: "any."

Skinner's self-abortion took place well into her third trimester. Without special medical circumstances, terminating a pregnancy at that stage is considered illegal.

It all comes down to one little word in the law:

Martingayle, the defense attorney, argued that there was nothing to contest. The meaning of the statute was crystal clear.


He said that "any person" meant anyone other than the mother, who is protected by the principal of expectant mother immunity.

Martingayle cites a 1997 Florida case in which a teenage mother shot her womb, effectively giving herself an abortion.

I think it's bull and this case will just lead other mothers-to-be across the nation to start stabbing themselves, shooting themselves and so on well into their third trimester. It's getting away with murder is what it is.

Here lawyer is a moron:

"What if she falls under the stairs under suspicious circumstances?" Martingayle asked. "What if she gains weight? Or not enough weight? What if she didn't follow the right diet or her doctor's recommendations? Was she trying to kill the baby?"

"It turns every expectant mother into a potential criminal," Martingayle said. "If they can convince a jury that she did it on purpose, than the expectant mother becomes a target."

Without question, Martingayle says, the allegations against his client are both serious and tragic.

SHE did it on purpose, what the hell is he talking about!?

I think that woman is insane.. she needs treatment..
And that was a full term baby, not to mention that if someone else had done it (pulled the trigger) they would have been charged..

EXACTLY!! The fact that she waited until the last possible minute, the DAY she was scheduled to give birth, is disgusting. Had she shot herself in the first trimester, no one would say a word about it, other than that she is a moron. She was having contractions, the baby was coming, I think what she did was horrible, criminal, murderous and atrocious.

Originally Posted by ilikeGW

EXACTLY!! The fact that she waited until the last possible minute, the DAY she was scheduled to give birth, is disgusting. Had she shot herself in the first trimester, no one would say a word about it, other than that she is a moron. She was having contractions, the baby was coming, I think what she did was horrible, criminal, murderous and atrocious.

I agree, it's really sickening. I don't understand why the hell did she wait that long. I'm pro choice but there are limits to everything, and this is far beyond those limits.

This is EXACTLY the same as killing the baby when it comes out in the hospital. EXACTLY the same.

Originally Posted by Feslin

This is EXACTLY the same as killing the baby when it comes out in the hospital. EXACTLY the same.

yep, I agree.