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Infanticide acceptable under Canadian law?

September 17, 2011/5 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Guest Blogger

In 2005, 19 year old Katrina Effert of Alberta, Canada secretly gave birth to a baby boy.  She then strangled him and threw him over a fence.  After being found guilty of second degree murder in not one but two trials, however the verdicts were summarily thrown out in appeals court.  On Sept 9, 2011 walked out of court a free woman, with only a 3 year suspended sentence for infanticide, thanks to Justice Joanne Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench.

Justice Veit cited Canada’s lack of abortion law, and stated “while many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion as a less than ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted pregnancy, they generally understand, accept and sympathize with the onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially mothers without support.”  She also added “Naturally, Canadians are grieved by an infant’s death, especially at the hands of the infant’s mother, but Canadians also grieve for the mother.”

Under Canadian law, a charge of infanticide can be proven if the mother is “not fully recovered” from childbirth and there is evidence her mind was disturbed.  Yet Effert’s mind was never shown to be disturbed.  However despite Effert’s planning for the delivery by stocking the downstairs bathroom of her parents’ home with towels and a scissors in which to cut the umbilical cord, as well as her attempts to induce a miscarriage by smoking and drinking during her pregnancy, Veit insisted this was “a classic case of infanticide.” 

So apparently in Canada a newborn can be murdered and still be protected by “a woman’s freedom of choice.”  Peter Singer would be proud.

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  1. AlbertaMama
    AlbertaMama says:
    September 18, 2011 at 12:17 am

    I heard about this on the news last week and I was horrified. That poor baby! That woman is no kind of mother and should have no sympathy from anyone having sympathy for the mother. Mothers don't kill their children. It's that simple.
    If there was no disturbed mental state proven, then murder is what it was. This is a classic example of everything that's wrong with the Canadian justice system

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  2. Anonymous
    Anonymous says:
    September 18, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    Choose to give up for adoption? Jeez.

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  3. Abolitionist
    Abolitionist says:
    September 18, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    Do you guys have a link for this?

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  4. cannibalrosecreations
    cannibalrosecreations says:
    September 19, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    I have a pair of links, that I used primarily for this write up. They are:
    http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=26835

    http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/judge-rules-no-jail-time-for-infanticide-because-canada-accepts-abortion

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  5. Mary
    Mary says:
    September 24, 2011 at 4:50 am

    You can trick an uninformed and confused woman about an unborn baby being human, but out of the womb? No, though this can't be too surprising. It's "acceptable" to kill the elderly because they rely on medicine and caretakers and so killing infants shouldn't be that big of leap. 🙁

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