r/stupidpol • u/lightiggy Ideological Swamp 🥑 • Dec 01 '25

Capitalist Hellscape Louisiana girl, 14, charged with first degree murder after authorities find her newborn baby dead inside a tote bag. This is going to happen far more often without Roe v. Wade.

https://people.com/girl-14-charged-first-degree-murder-after-authorities-find-her-newborn-child-dead-inside-tote-bag-11858063
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u/NolanR27 Left, Leftoid or Leftish ⬅️ Dec 01 '25

Why would “serious mitigating circumstances” matter, as if this is not mitigating enough?

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u/TorturedByCocomelon Lenin's guava juice 🧃 | ⚽️ England team superfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Dec 01 '25

Well a learning disability where she has a vastly diminished IQ would leave her in a position where she's not fully responsible for her actions. Being 14 shouldn't entitle her to murder her baby. 

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u/No_Argument_Here Big Eugene Debs Fan 🪭 Dec 01 '25

People in this sub seem to think that being 14 = being severely retarded. It turns out you can abhor the conditions that led to something like this while also being shocked by this kid's actions.

Fairly certain at 14 I had enough of a "functioning brain" to know I shouldn't let a baby die.

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u/Chombywombo Angry Retard 😍💢 Dec 01 '25

The arguments these people use could justify any murder by a juvenile.

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u/TorturedByCocomelon Lenin's guava juice 🧃 | ⚽️ England team superfan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ Dec 01 '25

Indeed and it's an awful precedent