This AFP story is very popular right now.
Excerpt:
A French nursing assistant admitted Thursday suffocating eight of her newborn babies “because she did not want any more children”, prosecutors said.
Dominique Cottrez, 45, was charged with murder after telling police that after having two daughters she did not want more nor “to see a doctor to get contraception”, prosecutor Eric Vaillant told reporters.
Cottrez’s husband Pierre-Marie Cottrez was freed after denying any knowledge of the killings, which came to light when police found skeletal remains buried in a garden and dumped in plastic sacks in a garage.
[…]Investigators said she had confessed to suffocating the babies shortly after their births between 1989 and 2006 or 2007, and to concealing the bodies from her husband under household clutter in the garage.
[…]In past cases some defendants have said they were in denial about their pregnancies and not fully responsible for their actions, but Vaillant said Cottrez had admitted to being “perfectly aware” of her condition.
[…]Prosecutors described it as the worst case of infanticide in recent French history, following a string of similar cases in which isolated and troubled mothers disposed of their newborns.
What could possess a woman to act in such a selfish way? How can she put her own selfish desires before the moral obligations she freely chose to impose on her self through her own decision to get pregnant? How can a woman believe that she is justified in killing her own children just so that her quality of life is not diminished?
WINTERY KNIGHT 
That’s just horrible. :-(
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yeah… I saw the news on TV.
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Did he not think something was up when she was pregnant and then mysteriously not? Did she not think no one would notice?
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Good point, mknz!
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You know. I was sooo going to stay out of this. I know there are people here who think I lay awake a night dreaming of ways to stir things up, but I really don’t. I just see beyond the immediate and associate like things to try to get a grasp on the whole.
I just watched Shutter Island this weekend with my son. It was a psycological thriller. There was a character in it who drowned her kids. That movie and this post about the nurse above makes me think of Andrea Yates who drowned her kids in a bathtub.
In fact, I told my son, I wouldn’t be surprised if the man who wrote Shutter Island, based it on his emotional reation to the Yates story.
Wintery and I agree, there is an attack on women. He focuses on Feminists. I focus on those who destroy women within the confines of what is supposed to be a safe house. The church.
The world can be a dangerous place. The Name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and they are safe. We used to sing this song based on scripture in a church I attended. And it’s true. But there are those making the church a treacherous place for women.
Andrea Yates also killed her children. She was a woman on the edge who needed help. But instead of help, she was fed misogynic ‘christian’ doctrine. (yes I did put christian in quote because I know that none here would agree that what she was fed actually was christian. but yet, this stuff still exists under the umbrella of Christian)
Yes, the story above is shocking. I also don’t know what would possess a woman to do this. Pure selfishness? A brain disorder? Postpartum depression? It’s aweful and when I look at my own kids, I can hardly imagine.
But the same goes for Andrea Yates. And her story shocked the world before this one did.
The world hears both stories.
What are they to make of them?
All women are crazy? Crazy women in the world are more crazy than the ones in church? Or is it the other way around?
I don’t know. I only know that when I see these stories, they both break my heart.
You can blame feminism in the nurse story. But I’m sure there is a whole lot more involved.
Who/what do you blame in the Yates story?
Here’s who the feminist blame.
http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/2007/1/15/the-quiverfull-movement-hate-speech-and-discrimination-against-women-as-women/
Are they wrong?
Sure there was more involved than bad teaching.
But around and around we go, blaming each other rather than finding real solutions, like dealing with psychological issues of both men and women.
Now I’m off to make a positive comment somewhere to try to balance this one out.
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