text: I cannot see how this is murder, since the parents seem to have wanted their children to survive. Their adherence to a faith that believes in letting events follow their natural course rather than employ medical intervention led them to allow their child to die, but from natural causes, and certainly not from the kinds of overt actions and selfish motives we associate with murder.
  
  My own Christian faith tells me that the medical skills and technology available to us are gifts from God to be used for good, and we should take advantage of them. The Mitchells, perhaps being young and inexperienced with the realities of the death of a child, relied on their faith to save the one child but relented and used the medical options available to save the other child after receiving sound medical advice. At most I might consider their actions to be profound neglect.
  
  But if this be murder, then what is it when a couple goes to an abortionist to purposefully and willingly kill their child?