Published December 26. 2020 12:01AM
Mary Sanchez
Because Bible-pounding has become a favored tactic of politicians, it was only a matter of time before one of the cabinet choices of the incoming Biden administration would set off screeds of fire and brimstone.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has become the target.
Becerra has been nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services, a crucial role not only because of the pandemic, but because president-elect Joe Biden will be focused on preserving and hopefully improving Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act.
Becerra, a Catholic, faces the gauntlet of the finger-pointers, those who question another s sanctity, the fitness of their soul.
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Chelsea Becker of Hanford has remained in custody on $2 million bail since the 2019 stillbirth. Police say methamphetamine was found in the fetus and that Becker, who was 8½ months pregnant at the time of the stillbirth, acknowledged using the drug. Becker, 26, has pleaded not guilty. Supporters say substance use disorder is a medical condition, not a crime, and that there is not enough evidence to say methamphetamine use causes stillbirths.
Philip Esbenshade, executive assistant to Kings County District Attorney Keith Fagundes, said the law authorizes a murder charge for “the reckless or indifferent unlawful conduct of a mother that results in the unlawful death of her fetus.”