Colorado woman sentenced to 100 years for cutting fetus from woman

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:29pm EDT

Colorado woman sentenced to 100 years for cutting fetus from woman

BOULDER, COLO. | BY KEITH COFFMAN

A Colorado woman was sentenced on Friday to 100 years in prison after being convicted of attempted murder for stabbing a pregnant stranger she had lured with an online ad for free maternity clothes, then cutting the fetus from her victim's womb.

A Boulder County District Court judge handed down the sentence for Dynel Lane, 35, for the grisly 2015 attack, which renewed a national debate over whether a fetus is a person and if termination of a pregnancy can ever be considered murder.

Michelle Wilkins, who was seven months pregnant, survived the attack in the town of Longmont, about 30 miles (48 km) north of Denver. But her unborn baby died.

A coroner concluded the fetus did not take a breath outside the womb, so under Colorado law Lane could not be charged with murder.

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[thereismore]

1. .

[LiberalElite]

2. That sentence sounds about right nt

[bigwillq]

3. Fine by me.

May this woman rot.

[mr clean]

4. That last sentence...

A coroner concluded the fetus did not take a breath outside the womb, so under Colorado law Lane could not be charged with murder.



I heard on TV that all abortions were murder?

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Heinous crime