October 18, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

What Baby Wagner was denied

What is a child’s life worth? To a person living five blocks from Husson College and unable to have children of my own, I’d give my right arm for the chance to parent. To the unwed pregnant woman who faces the possible shame and embarrassment of bringing her unplanned child into the world, there are choices she must make for her and her child’s future….

A Florida jury determined that a college student innocent of her choice was insane. Will a Maine jury say the same thing? Will Maine help start a precedent for young women who refuse to make legal choices?…

Baby Wagner will never know the loves and joys of life or the hardship of life. He will never know the American freedom we experience. He will never have the chance to make a right decision or a wrong decision. He will never know our world…

Denying a situation that demands a decision doesn’t make it go away — or does it? Robin Campbell Bangor


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