The Texas friend who sent me this story prefaced it by writing: "What she needed was a tubal and some Lexapro, but what she got was 22 years. Women in this state are in some deep, deep trouble."
Well, actually, she only got at most 12 years since the sentences are to run concurrently. Must have been one of those liberal activist judges we are always hearing about from our political friends on the right and the good Christians who support them.
I bet the judge wasn't a Gov. GWBush appointee. Or does the Texas governor appoint their judges?
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May 08, 2009
Mom sentenced to prison for putting fetus in refrigerator
Gloria Ramirez, 28, a Lubbock mother of nine, was arrested in 2007 after police found a dead fetus stored in the refrigerator.
On Friday, a jury sentenced Ramirez to 10 years in prison on that charge and another 12 years for child endangerment.
Ramirez, who is pregnant, will serve the sentences concurrently.
In 2007, Lubbock police went to Ramirez's home after her common-law husband called a funeral home about a casket for a stillborn infant.
Police said the fetus was found inside a baby wipe box in the refrigerator.
That's the story. I suppose this is what a mother gets for wanting to give her dead, stillborn baby a "Christian burial". Or is it what she gets for having the stillbirth at home in Texas? They have some pretty strict laws down deep in the heart of Texas. Molly Ivans would have loved this story. It has all the elements she found so fascinating about her state: incredible legislative stupidity, total disrespect for women, but great love for unborn children, and total disregard for already born children. Especially for the born children of minorities. (And Ramirez sounds suspiciously Hispanic to me.) And sounds like she was living in sin as well. Common-law-husband. I think we know what that means: living in sin!
Texas has had an Alma, Arkansas religious group active down there for a while now. Tony Alamo has moved much of his ministry to the lone star state.
And Tony is well know to take in wayward children, especially young girls. I don't know what he does with the boys, except work them to death in his "ministry". Tony, who waited for several years for his second wife, Susan, to rise from the dead, is well known to take a special interest in these children.
Well, this is kind of a short diary, but as an old ObGyn and abortion care provider, I felt the story deserved a special shoutout on Mother's Day! Obviously this lady, Ms. Ramirez, was probably a good RCC woman, never interested in birth control or abortion. The bishops must love her, especially now that she is in prison and can sin no more.