Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 2, 2012

Fourteen-year-old Cassidy Goodson has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse for suffocating her newborn son while the baby was still attached to her by the umbilical cord.

Goodson, who had concealed the pregnancy from her parents by wearing baggy clothes, gave birth to the baby boy in the bathroom of her home in Lakeland, Florida on September 19. In addition to the charges against Goodson, officials are considering criminal charges against adults who may have helped keep the pregnancy secret.

A spokesman for the Polk County Sheriff?s Office said that the high school freshman killed the child because she ?didn?t know what to do with it.? That casually dehumanizing description of the victim ? who was a baby boy, not an ?it? ? underscores the moral and legal paradox displayed in this hideous crime.

The Supreme Court?s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, which we are told is the ?law of the land? regarding abortion, did not specify that the right to life begins at the moment of birth.  The Roe decision put the government in charge of defining who is a ?person,? and who would be considered an ?it.?

If Roe is the law, then how is what Cassidy Goodson did a crime?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.