Two Ohio thugs noted a woman leaving a store and reportedly shoplifting, and instead of arranging to arrest her, they shot her dead.

If she had stolen something necessary for her life, or for her children's life, I would have said that the poor have a right to steal necessities like that. But that point was not applicable if she was stealing alcoholic drinks. She did not have a right to steal alcoholic drinks.

But that does not mean it was a grave crime either.

Meanwhile, even though her petty theft was apparently unjustified, it was no justification for killing her.

I disagree with the article's assumption: that we non-pregnant members of society are less worthy of rights that are those members who are pregnant. Reproducing is not a special virtue, especially now in the days when overpopulation is likely to kill enough people to reduce the population drastically through suffering.

But that detail doesn't affect the overall moral conclusion much. Pregnant or not, mother or not, the thugs killed that woman because they saw an opportunity, and that morally makes them murderers.