REPREHENSIBLE: Battered women morally entitled to kill abusers, University of Ottawa professor asserts.

While very few women kill abusive men who are asleep or passed out, it’s “unfair” to charge them with first degree murder, Sheehy argues. “It’s not fair to characterize it as the most heinous form of murder, because it may be their own route to survival.”

Battered women’s “moral courage,” Sheehy writes in her book, “deserves our respect.

Murdering someone in his sleep. How courageous! Seriously, though, if he’s asleep, just walk away.

Also, why is the situation framed as a woman killing a man, when domestic violence by women is comparable to, if not greater than, that of men?