The 'Quotation Of The Day' in todays NYTimes:

Uh, ya think?

I wonder how much more costly it is to keep someone on death row over the general prison population? :confused:

Hide the children. Looks Andrea will now go free. Since she has no more children to murder (to prevent them from going to hell), she will have lots of free time that she can use to "save" the children of the neighbors or the local day care center or the mall. They should have buried her with her kids. Alive.

Oh geez. I certainly hope they're going to retry her. I believe the woman is seriously messed up in the head, but she definitely needs to locked up somewhere. :yelsick:

It's not like she just snapped and killed her kids one day, she had a long history of being a psycho and not taking good care of them - so why did Rusty leave the kids alone with her? Yes, she should be locked up or put to death, but why does Rusty get to walk away?

For the same reason that the girl who got her boyfriend to beat her in the abdomen with a baseball bat until she miscarried gets to walk away, I guess.

A source other than WND.

The legislators who passed the law preventing those under-18 from getting a legal abortion without their parent's permission should be on trial for that one. This was a predictable (and likely predicted) result.

I'm pretty sure that Andrea Yates isn't 'going free' anywhere. . . I thought it was just a decision as to whether she will do her time in a jail cell or on a mental ward unit. . . no? Criminally insane, that sort of thing?

Under the age of 18 individuals aren't free to do a lot of things without parental notification and consent. A 17 year old girl can't go in and get a breast augmentation or reduction, oral surgery, or even lasic surgery done without parental notification. if they can't do those things, why would it be acceptable for them to go in and have an abortion without notifying the parents?

Under 18, in most states, a female can't even give consent to sexual relations with someone over 18. She can't even sign up for extra curricular activities at the school without parental consent. The reasoning is that she is too young to know what is, and isn't in her best interests. Hell, intheory she can't even go to some movies.

I'm not preaching to ban abortion, but I think parental consent is reasonable to expect before performing a surgical procedure on a child. Even though they may not look like kids on the outside, they still are children.

I'm pretty sure that Andrea Yates isn't 'going free' anywhere. . . I thought it was just a decision as to whether she will do her time in a jail cell or on a mental ward unit. . . no? Criminally insane, that sort of thing?

She's getting a new trial. I'm sure the second jury will find her just as guilty as the first one.

yeah, more tax payer money for someone they should have just shot the day they found her.

This one falls in my "why doesn't matter" category.

i hear you. i don't think there could possibly be any acceptable or understandable reason for this behaviour. the world would be better served if the cops walked over to Ms Yates, she confessed, the cops brought in an unbiased third party to witness the confession again. everybody nods at each other before putting two holes in her forehead. insane or not, she's just a waste of oxygen at this point.

Not to nitpick or anything, but isn't she innocent until proven guilty? I think she's a wacko who deserves what she gets, but they still gotta give her a "legitimate" trial, like it or not.

And BTW, what about the taxpayer money being used to support the babies of teenage girls who are too scared to tell their parents they're pregnant? I don't want to pay for those kids--maybe people who support parental notification should. :yelgreedy

Speaking of Peterson (I am), The other day I saw a website claiming that he was railroaded and asked for donations to secure his release and find the real culprit. :eek:
I won't bother to go look for it because I know you don't want to donate.