By Selwyn Duke

When the great philosopher G.K. Chesterton said, “Let all the babies
be born. Then let us drown those we do not like,” he wasn’t advocating
infanticide but was just making a point. Unfortunately, though, we’re
getting closer to a time when people would take his words literally. An
example of this is a judge’s decision in Canada that a woman who
strangled her newborn baby shouldn’t be incarcerated because Canadians’
failure to criminalize abortion indicates that they “sympathize” with
the mother.

Lifesite News reports on the story, writing,
“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.”

Effert was subsequently convicted of second-degree
murder. But this was overturned by the Alberta Court of Appeal, which
reduced the charge to infanticide, punishable by no more than five years
imprisonment. Yet when Effert appeared for sentencing before Justice
Joanne Veit of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in September, even
this punishment was deemed excessive. Instead, the judge gave Effert a
three-year suspended sentence, which means that she won’t serve even one
day in prison. Writes Lifesite News:

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