This is not as cut-and-dry as others:
In 2006, Mississippi teenager Rennie Gibbs gave birth to a little girl, Samiya. She was a month premature and arrived with an umbilical cord around her neck, stillborn. Shortly thereafter, Gibbs was indicted for murder—”depraved heart murder,” to be exact—and has spent the past seven years fighting for her freedom. This is all because a highly controversial medical examiner named Steven Hayne discovered traces of a cocaine byproduct called benzoylecgonine in Samiya’s blood and decided that it must have been the cause of death.
Now there were a number of factors that could have resulted in the baby’s death. It was premature, the cord was wrapped around the baby’s neck, and mom was using cocaine while pregnant.
I will certainly agree with the article’s assessment of this case being controversial.
Still there are certain things one just shouldn’t do because it makes legal cases against you so much easier. As a gun owner I don’t go prattling on about how cool it would be to shoot somebody. Not only because I don’t think it is, but if I end up having to defend my life, those words could be used against me.
Same goes for using illegal drugs while pregnant. Its not safe for the baby. Its not like there is a therapeutic value for the mother. Its also not a legal behavior. That all puts you in a bad spot when you deliver a dead child.
No matter how you feel, we can all agree that no guns were used.
H/T Mrs. Weer’d
