If North Carolina Republicans have their way, the Old North State will join the likes of Mississippi and South Carolina in 2012, criminalizing miscarriage and abortion. Inspired by the zygote zealots at the NC Family Policy Council, they're now pushing a "life begins at conception" agenda that follows the road straight to hell.
Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child. Gibbs became pregnant aged 15, but lost the baby in December 2006 in a stillbirth when she was 36 weeks into the pregnancy. When prosecutors discovered that she had a cocaine habit, though there is no evidence that drug abuse had anything to do with the baby’s death, they charged her with the “depraved-heart murder” of her child, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
Here at home, of course, that mandatory life sentence will never happen. As abortion and miscarriage morph into capital crimes, life in prison will be replaced by the death penalty. And mothers who have abortions or miscarriages in our state will be executed as the murdering whores in the true tradition of the Tarheel Taliban.
