as most episodes of other crime dramas aired for the last 20 years. |
Because she loves her children. She did not want to kill her children. This was not her decision. She wanted to be able to raise and love and nurture her children, whom she described as precious boys. |
For her this is a conflict of what she desired and what God wills, and she struggled over whether to obey God and her desire to keep her children. |
I don't think she was thinking about state law when she was doing this, and struggling to carry out God's will. |