Trivializing first degree murder isn't very persuasive.

So go ahead and defend the indefensible - let's let the guy that dismembered his victims and ate them with a nice plate of fava beans and a good chianti go on the public dole because it just isn't palatable to remove his scourge from our midst.

But let's support the singular 'justice' who chooses to kill the helpless innocent. At least you are being consistent - always defend the murderer.

Have I ever seen pregnancy? You write of it as if it were a fate akin to death. Most people agree that a woman is at her most beautiful when she is pregnant. And all of us that exist began as a result of a successful pregnancy.

Have you ever seen an abortion? I believe if everyone would look at the death experienced by the innocent person who as early as 8 weeks recoil in horror and lift their little arms in puny defense against cold steel that dismembers their little bodies - abortions would cease. It is only because the physical evidence is well hidden from the public and those that have had life ripped from their wombs are plied with a copious pharmacy that it continues.

Would I wish it on a 13-year-old? Of course not - who would? I have seen 13-year-olds who in such circumstances come to term and deliver their child and put it up for adoption or who are surrounded by a loving family who raise the child as another of their own and the result is a much healthier person than one who has a living person ripped from their womb and never recover from the psychological damage that results.

Have you ever seen a girl who grows into a woman who counts as the singular defining moment of her life when her unborn child was killed inside of her and she can't forget that child - she dreams of the child over and over again - she sees that little accusing face every night and hears that little voice ask 'why' every night? I have and it seems to me that there is almost no consolation for someone like that - that is if you discount a permanent vicodin scrip.

So, punishment is not what I have in mind - it's deliverance.

No, wait, it's okay to kill grown people, but not unborn ones. Because the grown people did bad things. Which makes it okay for us to kill them, even though it's not in self-defense.

"Culture of death," indeed.

I think abortion sucks, and I'm very sad that a 13-year-old would be pregnant in the 1st place. But have you ever seen pregnancy? Would you wish it on a 13-year-old? Or are we punishing her for being bad, too?

[gets up from computer to take another shower]

Really? He can rule she won't be emtoionally harmed?

All class.

The Judges last name might as well have been "Hitler"