Somebody Must Have Done It

The godly state of Alabama has embarked on a laudable crusade to enhance yet further its already considerable status as a bastion of coathanger Christianity. Last December two women got into an argument outside a shop in Pleasant Grove, the matter being assertively resolved in fine traditional fashion when one of the antagonists shot the other in the stomach. The quasi-involuntary ammunition recipient was five months pregnant at the time and the foetus did not survive, so a manslaughter charge was brought against the woman who fired the gun. However, the grand jury did not indict her, so the state's protectors and servers have brought the same charge against the woman who was shot. She was, after all, present at the scene of the crime, and few other suspects are available, and it appears that the local police lieutenant has one or two mother issues to work through.