Canadian Judges Expand Abortion Rights Into 4th Trimester

From Life News via Creative Minority Report:

An Alberta judge has let a woman who strangled her newborn son walk free by arguing that Canada’s absence of a law on abortion signals that Canadians “sympathize” with the mother.

“We live in a country where there is no protection for children in the womb right up until birth and now this judge has extended the protection for the perpetrator rather than the victim, even though the child is born and as such should be protected by the court,” said Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition.

Katrina Effert of Wetaskiwin, Alberta gave birth secretly in her parents’ downstairs bathroom on April 13, 2005, and then later strangled the newborn and threw his body over a fence. She was 19 at the time.

She has been found guilty of second-degree murder by two juries, but both times the judgment was thrown out by the appeals court. In May, the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned her 2009 murder conviction and replaced it with the lesser charge of infanticide.

On Friday, Effert got a three-year suspended sentence from Justice Joanne Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. As a result, she was able to walk out of court, though she will have to abide by certain conditions.

Think that kind of moonbattery will never make it to this side of the border? Think again. It's already here. Did you know that 2 years ago, a Texas Congresswoman introduced an infanticide bill that would define the murder of your own baby as not murder as long as the infant is less than 1 year old: Democrat Pushing Bill To Make Killing An Infant Not Equal To Murder? An example of Democrat/liberal compassion. Did you also know that the above scenario in Canada is legal in several states including Virginia? Really. If a mom lives in Virginia, for instance, she won't even be charged with anything as 4th trimester abortions are AOK and protected by Democrat ghouls:

Who are the Democrats that would support such barbarity? Answer: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, mmmm mmmmm mmmmm. As an Illinois Senator, he protected by his vote a procedure known "live birth abortion" where babies were born alive and left in soiled linen closets to die while crying and screaming. It is utter depravity and a crime against humanity. Yet 4 times Obama voted to protect 4th trimester abortion/infanticide (more here and here):

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. ²⁹They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ³²Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. - Romans 1 (NIV)

Poll: Obamacare support at all time low of 39%

From Beltway Confidential:

Americans' opinion of Obamacare has reached an all-time post-passage low according to the Kaiser Health Tracking poll. Only 39% of those surveyed have a favorable view of the law, two points below the previous nadir of 41% first set in May 2010. Forty-four percent of Americans have an unfavorable view.

While there continues to be a sharp partisan divide over the law, the Kaiser poll shows Americans' views converging. Democratic and Independent support for Obamacare has fallen to all-time lows of 60% and 33% respectively. But Republican support for the law is at an all-time 24% high.

A continuous stream of nightmare stories from places where socialized medicine has been tried (and failed) may be fueling some of this. For instance, in Britain: 100,000 terminally ill 'do not get proper palliative care'

Far more people die in hospital than wish to, and experts estimate that more than 90,000 people are not having their palliative care needs met.

And this: Saddam Hussein Torture Doctor at Work in British Hospital. And this: Cataracts, hips, knees and tonsils: NHS begins rationing operations (more on that one at Maggie's Notebook, Betsy's Page, Power Line, LifeNews). Even more: NHS trusts delaying surgeries to get people to pay — or die. And regarding ObamaCare: Health care law won't rein in costs, study says. Of course it doesn't! It was never meant to! Lots more about how the unconstitutional law will increase, not decrease, healthcare costs here: Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Fox Nation, Sister Toldjah and Pirate's Cove

UPDATE: The 6-Year Search for a Family Doctor in Canada 

From the article "The Soul-Destroying Search for a Family Doctor," about a woman's six-year search to find a family doctor in Canada, where the single-payer system is frequently plagued with shortages for primary care physicians.

Plus this:  "All of these people were actually lined up to try to get a family doctor in Canada."

Yikes...