Longmont resident Renee Jacoby and others protest last Thursday after 34-year-old Dynel Lane allegedly stabbed an expectant mother in the stomach and removed her baby, which died. (Jeremy Papasso, Daily Camera)
Re: “Murder charge in death of Longmont baby in mother’s stabbing?,” March 20 editorial.
The “Newspeak”-type language that has to be used because of Colorado law is chilling to the bone. A baby that dies after being ripped from its mother’s womb wasn’t really alive unless it took a breath of air? So how do you kill something that is not alive? Why is it not a human being until it takes one gulp of air?
Wake up, Colorado — a beating heart in an unborn child is proof enough that it is a living human being whether it is in the womb or not.
John Pickard,Lakewood
This letter was published in the March 24 edition.
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