Moral Outcry

Here is another one of those stories that totally boggles my mind! You'll see what I mean:

Sayre police on Wednesday charged Orbin Eeli Tercero, 38, with criminal homicide of an unborn child, first-degree murder of an unborn child, aggra vated assault of an unborn child, aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

Tercero, of Williamson Terrace, was arrested Thursday by state police in Bath as a fugitive from justice.

He was arraigned in Bath Village Court and remanded to Steuben County Jail, pending a hearing on extradition to Pennsylvania.

The charges are based on the following events, according to police:

The victim, a 36-year-old woman from Sayre and a pharmacist at a Wegmans Market, said she had a two-year physical relationship with Tercero, also a Wegmans pharmacist.

Tercero was engaged to another woman at the time.

The victim, whose name is being withheld by this newspaper, told Tercero she was pregnant in mid-January.

Tercero told the woman he could use the drug misoprostol to induce a miscarriage. The victim told Tercero she would get an abortion instead.

The victim, however, made a Feb. 24 appointment for an abortion but changed her mind. She called Tercero to tell him she would keep the baby.

In late February, on the victim's birthday, Tercero visited her at home and used misoprostol he allegedly stole from Wegmans pharmacy to cause the miscarriage.

Without her knowing it, Tercero put one pill in her vagina, one in her juice and one in her water. She was 13 weeks pregnant at the time.

When the victim began to miscarry, she found a partially dissolved misoprostol tablet among the discharge.

Tercero drove the victim to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, where she miscarried.

(source)

This is a horrible situation for this woman and I hope she will be able to recover from this. However, I would like to point out what the Cops charged this man with: criminal homicide of an unborn child, first-degree murder of an unborn child, aggra vated assault of an unborn child...

This is insane to me! Not because I think the Cops are wrong but because our law designates the value of a child's life to a "choice". If that mother would have decided to follow through with the abortion, that child's life would have been snuffed out and the law would have protected that. But now that the woman wants the child, he or she is protected by law?

Again, I am appreciative of the fact that this man is being held accountable for the death of this child. What I despise is the hypocrisy in our laws.

Honestly, this reminds me of a speech Abraham Lincoln gave regarding the Dred Scott case and slavery:

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.

Eventually, we are going to have to decided upon the rights of the unborn. Either that child in the womb deserves protection by the law at all times or not at all. We cannot continue to have it both ways.

What do you think about the charges against this man? Sound off in the comments