BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Laura Wallen’s parents say she already had a boy’s name picked out for her unborn baby before she was killed, even though she didn’t yet know the gender.
Wallen was about 14 weeks pregnant with a son who would have been named Reid when, according to police, her longtime boyfriend Tyler Tessier shot her point blank in the back of her head, and buried her on a friend’s property in Montgomery County.
Family members, friends and colleagues became concerned when Wallen didn’t show up for the first day of classes at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, where she taught.
She was reported missing Sept. 4, and her body was found Sept. 13. Tessier was charged with her murder shortly thereafter. But he didn’t face a second count for the baby Wallen was carrying because, under Maryland law, a fetus is only viable apart from its mother at 23 weeks or more.
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A fetus is a fetus is a fetus is a person, from the moment that sperm succesfully meets egg. End of story.
ReplyDeleteThat can NOT pass until the courts recognize that life starts before birth. If they pass the fetal homicide law, all abortions would be illegal, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd should be. It is just birth control usually paid for by Planned Parenthood (some planning)!
Delete12:53 & 12:54, my thoughts exactly!!!
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