MOTHER OF THE YEAR 2005

Not much to say about this one from the Des Moines Register today. 'Cept maybe to wonder whether Charlie Sheen was in town.

Pregnant woman charged with child endangerment

But hold on there, kitten...it gets better...

"...Davenport, Ia. — A pregnant woman whose blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit was arrested but prosecutors said they will ask that that charge be dismissed. Rebecca Mann, 23, of Maquoketa, was arrested Sunday — Mother’s Day — for child endangerment because police said she was endangering her unborn child by being intoxicated. She told police she was 7 months pregnant, court records show. But Scott County Attorney Bill Davis said he will request the charge be dropped because it involves a fetus and not a child..."

Oh…sorry, my mistake. You’re right. I forgot you’re not a human at 7-months thanks to the abortionists. To be a little more technical, the Scott County Attorney says…

‘‘...Under Iowa law, a fetus is not a person until it has been separated and been born from the mother and taken a breath independent of the mother, period,’’ Davis said..."

Was Terri Shiavo a fetus? Hmmm...

Anyway...Do you get the feeling that the above comment might have been said with a slight smirk on his face? Either that, or with heavy sarcasm. I know we’re not supposed to interpret feelings and mood in what someone says in print, but the “period” part caught me a little off guard. I sense it might be one with a little tone of anger too.

As for the cops themselves, well…they seem to be normal average everyday thinking people and not necessarily lawyers who enjoy exploring the minutia of every law. I get the sense most of us would have reacted in the same way. One wonders if she was smoking too.

"...Davenport police spokesman Lt. Don Gano said the arrest on the child endangerment charge ‘‘was a mistake in the interpretation in the statute by the officers.’’Mann told officers ‘‘she has four other children and drank while she was pregnant with them, and they turned out fine,’’ police said in court records..."

Yes…I’m sure they’ll be just fine. That is until they find a nice slick lawyer like Bill Davis to take a class action lawsuit out on the liquor companies for not telling her of the dangers. She’ll probably grow up to be just like our Mother of The Year candidate…
"...Police said she fell while getting into the front passenger seat of an unmarked car driven by an undercover officer, then agreed to have sex with him for $100...."

5:30pm UPDATE: Nevermind all that stuff. I think I just found a competing story in Seattle. Go ahead and read the story. It involves a woman who was 8-months pregnant who was "tasered" by police after a traffic stop...despite police guidelines on the use of tasers for pregnant suspects. I was more struck by the comment from the woman charged in the case...who will now probably sue, thank you very much...(psst...call Bill Davis for representation!)

"..."As police officers, they could have hurt me seriously. They could have hurt my unborn fetus," she said. "All because of a traffic ticket. Is this what it's come down to?"..."

Unborn fetus? This has to be the first pregnant woman in history who has ever referred to her...um...BABY as an "unborn fetus"...either that, or I suspect a little editing over at the Seattle Post and Intellegencer. It has to be that...no other explanation makes sense. The quote is near the bottom of the story by the way.