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British nurse Lucy Letby gets life in prison for murdering 7 infants

People on the secular left often struggle to rationally ground basic morality. Their version of “morality” starts with their own personal autonomy – and that’s absolute. Then, try to paint a portrait of themselves as “moral”, despite their support for abortion, infanticide, divorce, sex-trafficking children, etc. How can you claim to be moral when your morality is “survival of the fittest”?

Here’s the story of a woman who didn’t take the right to life seriously – reported in Daily Wire:

A British nurse convicted last week of murdering seven infants between 2015 and 2016 and attempting to murder six more has been sentenced to life in prison.

The 33-year-old nurse, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, became the United Kingdom’s worst serial killer of babies in recent times after she was convicted in 14 out of the 22 counts she faced, People Magazine reported. On Monday, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

[…]The nurse’s trial took ten months to complete at Manchester Crown Court, with the 11-person jury failing to reach verdicts on six additional counts of attempted murder. She was also found not guilty on two counts of attempted murder.

The woman, who worked as a nurse in the neonatal ward of the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, would inject air into babies’ blood and stomachs, overfeed them with milk, physically assault them, and poison them with insulin, CNN reported.

If there is one thing common to every person on the secular left, it’s their absolute hatred of being held accountable. People on the secular left hate to be judged, and they oppose all punishment for moral crimes. They feel that they should be able to do what they want, and that their own personal desires should be respected by everyone as “objective morality”.

And this woman is no exception:

The nurse didn’t appear for sentencing, which has led some to call for changes in law to ensure that a guilty person is present for their sentencing hearing, CNN reported. During sentencing, Justice James Goss explained that the nurse deserved life in prison because her crimes were “a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children.”

He spoke as if the nurse were in the courtroom and ordered his remarks and all victim impact statements to be sent to the convicted serial killer.

“There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism. During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors,” he said, according to CNN.

Honestly, I’m surprised to hear words like this come out of a United Kingdom judge. They’re not a country that’s known for holding evil people accountable.

I thought this part was interesting:

Text messages and social media activity also coincided with the attacks, some of which seemed to live blog the events. This activity, according to CPS, showed the nurse had an “intrusive curiosity about the parents of babies she had harmed.”

Who knows what the motives of this woman are? There is a lot of hostility towards children out there today, especially among feminists. Many of them are bitter about  being childless in their 30s. Others are committed to global warming alarmism, and believe that it hurts the planet to have children. Others are concerned about “overpopulation” – especially when people of certain races have “too many” children.

This women doesn’t have to be “evil” or “crazy”. She could just be acting rationally according to standard secular leftist beliefs. She could just be lacking any of the boundaries that come from the Judeo-Christian worldview. Those boundaries are disappearing now, so we should expect to see more secular left “morality” like this happening more and more.

2 thoughts on “British nurse Lucy Letby gets life in prison for murdering 7 infants”

  1. I guess the irony to this situation is that this person is being punished (rightly so) for her actions, but abortion continues to be accepted, promoted, and even lauded in places like Hollywood!!

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  2. The irony is that this nurse will be punished for her crimes [rightly so] against vulnerable children, but abortion [against vulnerable children] is promoted, encouraged, and even lauded in society.

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