In Nebraska in 2023, apparently, the punishment for murder and other crimes is 90 days in jail and 2 years probation. For which the judge has been condemned by woke regressives because the judge was too harsh.

As we understand the report originally in the Omaha World Herald, the teenager killed her unborn child by taking abortion pills obtained by the teen’s mother. At the time of the killing, the child was at 30 weeks gestation – just 9 weeks short of usual time of birth. After the dead child was expelled from her body, the two women then tried three times to dispose of the corpse. They did so ultimately by burning the tiny body and burying “the thing” (their words in text messaging) in a shallow hole in the backyard.

At the time, Nebraska law prohibited abortion after 20 weeks (now it is banned after 12 weeks). But the judge allowed a plea bargain in which the killer pled guilty to a felony of “removing, concealing or abandoning a dead human body” – for which (a) all other charges were dropped and (b) she gets 90 days in a jail cell. No word whether she will be allowed work release privileges.

And we wonder why human life is so devalued in these States in 2023?

We know that many libertarians will condemn us here at TPOL for taking this position, for many libertarians believe that a person isn’t human until birth (if then, in some cases). And that “thing” in a woman’s womb is nothing but an intruder and trespasser. And therefore to be given the death penalty for the child’s (“fetus'”) horrific crime. Hypocritically, too many libertarians who believe that also oppose the death penalty for mass murderers, rapists, and those who mutilate children in the name of their religion of wokeness.

But despite loud claims to the contrary, both medical science and biblical religion agree that a human is a human is a human, from conception to actual physical death. We here now and in the past at TPOL believe that the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and -yes- property or the pursuit of happiness, as you would, belong to the unborn humans just as much as they belong to those whose lives are not viable without medications, health care, and assistance in living at the end of their life or as a result of injuries, wounds, or illness.

Much as we sometimes wish otherwise, when dealing with bureaucrats, cops, lawyers, and judges. We do not get to pick and choose who is human and who is not.

There are times when we have to make decisions as to who can live and who must die, but that was clearly not the case in Nebraska. The “mother” (sick as it is to apply that term to the murderer) was in good health and capable of safely bearing the child to term. The child was healthy and viable until the “mother” deliberately and with premedication chose to take pills and kill her baby. And the baby’s “mother’s” mother chose to aid and abet the killing.

“But women need to have choices!” we hear screamed. Well, this killer did: she was not raped, as much as we can tell. She was not forced to have sex with a man. She was, not, as far as we know, prohibited from having used (or made her dead child’s father use) a contraceptive.

Even more disgusting and degrading than killing your own offspring – and abusing and desecrating the body – are those people who stood up for her “right” to murder an innocent child. And claim that it is wrong to put fear into people who might do the same evil thing.

Human sacrifice – especially of innocents including children – is an evil, monstrous action all too often recorded in humankind’s history. And generally goes hand in hand with tyranny, conquest, genocide, and wanton killing and enslavement. From ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia to Mexico and the Four Corners, and even to modern Cambodia and China and other places. Like slavery and conquest, it must be constantly – perhaps eternally – fought and suppressed. Even though we know it will reappear time after time.

If we truly love life and liberty, should we not fight those who take away life for religious or convenience’s sake? Whether it is governments or private individuals who do so?