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Until it becomes old enough to be used as either cannon fodder for the military industrial complex or slave labour for the profit driven prison system
Tragic story with an extra dose of crazy compared to the usual doesn't believe in medicine:

When investigators asked why she did not take the baby to a medical facility, she said that she and her husband do not believe in modern medicine and live an unconventional life where they do not acknowledge time frames or the days of the week, the complaint says. >

Don't forget this is the second baby they have let die.  There was another one that they buried in the backyard of their old house. >

Wait what?!? >

So they've killed 66% of their children. Not cool. >

These people should not be raising children.  If they’re not willing to be the best advocate for these kids and do everything they can, I’m sorry but they should not be parents.  This is basically murder due to intentional negligence. >

I'm sure they also don't believe in abortion or birth control >

They've already said they don't believe in medicine. >

"Amy Hoenigke tried to use peppermint and "steam teas" to treat her son and used a plastic straw to try and clear his nasal passage."
She did that to her own newborn. >

neither alone are completely absurd ideas (nasal suction and warm humid air), but context and detail matter enormously.  This isn't just a baby with a bit of a cold, it's a neonate in respiratory distress and they didn't do anything normal about the obvious signs of medical distress, nor about the child's demise as the infant was found to have been deceased for a few days and they were planning to bury the body without notifying anyone, but couldn't because the ground is frozen. >

Fuck’s sake, that’s grim. >

And while 2 yrs between is a pretty normal spacing assuming she probably exclusively nursed and did babyled weaning, I would be seriously considering the possibility of that already having happened previously, and doing a very thorough search of the property >

What's the connection between nursing and baby-led weaning and her potentially having killed/allowed other babies to die? >

None directly.
Those things, which I would expect were family practice here, tend to create about a 2 yr gap in child ages, and they have a 2 yr old.  I'm saying that older child suggests the right gap that this might be the next subsequent pregnancy and birth, without others between.
However, given that they seemed to have no hesitation about burying this dead infant, I would be very concerned that there might be others, perhaps earlier than the 2 yr old. >

Often when young women in the US want to get an abortion, they have to prove they’re ‘mature enough’ to make that decision. But no one ever has to prove they’re capable of being a good parent. >


they have to prove they’re ‘mature enough’ to make that decision

Which is totally insane because they are basically saying that if you're not mature enough to make the decision about having an abortion, you're somehow automatically considered mature enough to bring up a child. >

People are under the guise that the antichoice movement actually cares what happens to these women and children. Once that fetus is a living breathing tax needing human they are on their own.