but was it your child...
...does it matter
shareit matters because in society today it is easier to sympathize with and justify protecting your own child...vs an anonymous, un-related any-child...which is why people choose to ignore the vast numbers of children even in America that go to bed hungry each night, or suffer from excretiatingly bad parenting...
to Lawrence saving her own child would be much more understandable (going outside the rules of law/society) than risking what she did (imprisonment/life disruption) to protect a child not her own
the fact that he asks that question means that he still does not see reality of intervention in same way as Gina...to her it literally did not matter if the child was hers or anothers--
IMO--it was not her child because she said he "hurt" a child--meaning the child was still alive--I don't think Gina would have lost custody of her child for just "hurting" the man--she did not say she killed him--so she should have gotten custody back after being released from prison--that was obviously not the case--therefore the child she protected was not hers...
but that is just kind of slim reasoning
the fact that Gina moved to the larger argument of protecting ANY child was what lead to her actions in always confronting the politicians with the reality of the situation regarding poverty's effects...
she was an activist
"...That's the beauty of argument, Joey. If you argue correctly, you're never wrong..."
Urrr, what she said is "I hurt a man who hurt a child... killed a child."
The child was killed and she hurt the man who did it. I believe it was her child, but she feels that that should not matter as all life is precious and all kids deserve to be protected.