I just wanted to comment on the story

titled “<a href=

“https://northernstar.info/from_ap/nation_world/article_35888710-0c04-54ce-b47f-3876db1224db.html”>Prosecutors

to seek death penalty in Stockton case” which appeared in the

Northern Star on Wednesday.

This is about a case currently going

on in Winnebago County (Rockford) in which the state is seeking the

imposition of the death penalty against a young woman who allegedly

ended the life of her baby in 2004.

I could not help but notice the irony

in the story. A young woman who allowed her newborn to freeze to

death is a murderer who the state wants dead, but had she just had

an abortion prior to giving birth, you’d have organizations like

“Advocates for Choice” likely claiming she was a hero who was

simply exercising her “choice.”

Again, seems kind of ridiculous.

Joseph Lotta

Senior

Psychology major