Jivin J’s Life Links 5-26-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- An Indiana man named Leonard Beaty has been found guilty of molesting a young girl who became pregnant and had an abortion at age 11. The girl apparently continued to be molested after the pregnancy and abortion, thanks to the abortion clinic, which seemingly didn’t inform law enforcement about a pregnant 11-year-old. The girl is now 13.
- The House of Representatives voted yesterday to ban teaching health centers from using tax money to train abortionists:The author of the measure, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, said she wanted to make it “crystal clear that taxpayer money is not being used to train health care providers to perform abortion procedures.” …
The amendment also states that no funds available under the grant program can be used to perform abortions and that teaching health centers will not be eligible for funds if they discriminate against providers that deny abortion services.
- Pilgrim Medical Center, a NJ abortion clinic, was cited in 2009 for various deficiencies:
A patient’s chest was not hooked up to an EKG monitor, but an EKG status was written on that person’s medical record anyway.
State inspectors found a series of health violations at Pilgrim Medical Center on Bloomfield Avenue, including some that posed immediate risks to patients. Before they were ready to be inserted into patients, 10 needles were removed from their packaging and placed in an unsterile plastic container. Employees were exposing medication to possible contamination by opening vials with their bare hands after having wiped them with alcohol.
- Frederick Dyer writes on how abortion became illegal in the United States:[Horatio Robinson] Storer, the American Medical Association, and the state/territorial medical associations were wonderfully successful. Connecticut and Pennsylvania passed strict anti-abortion laws in 1860. By 1880, nearly every state and territory had new legislation that made it a serious crime to induce abortions unless the mother’s life was in danger. Most of these stringent state laws against abortion were virtually unchanged until Roe v. Wade overturned them in 1973.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Authorities really should go after the abortion provider in South Bend that failed to report the abuse.
That’s criminal.
If the clinic failed to report then there should be consequences, but the article doesn’t actually say that the abuse continued after the abortion. It’s not well-written, but it sounds to me like the abortion happened after the abuse was discovered.
The girl involved in the case became pregnant when she was just eleven years old, but she says that Beaty continued to molest her after the pregnancy that she aborted. She is now thirteen years old.
I believe the story says quite clearly that the abuse continued after the abortion. It doesn’t say anything about when the abuse was discovered.
This is excellent news:
Chapel next to abortion clinic:
http://www.ewtnnews.org/catholic-news/US.php?id=3272
I believe the story says quite clearly that the abuse continued after the abortion.
No, that’s not what the story says, at least not on a grammatical level. It says that the abuse continued “after the pregnancy that she aborted;” “that she aborted” is an adjectival dependent clause modifying “the pregnancy,” not “the abuse,” and so it doesn’t tell us when the abuse ended. Please understand that I’m discussing grammar, not abortion here. Grammar is morally neutral; the linguistic function of a clause does not change with the opinion of the reader.
It caught my eye specifically because it was so awkwardly written, so I checked a couple other versions of the story, and none said that the abuse continued after the abortion rather than after the pregnancy was discovered. The link here is to the Chicago Tribune, which is competently edited and not particularly liberal.
Well, you may be right. I simply figured that the intent, bad grammar aside, was to say that the abuse continued after the abortion. But neither story has enough details for us to be sure what happened, or who found out about the abuse and when, or whether it was the molester who took her for the abortion. So we can’t say.
If I were inclined to make arguments ex silentio I would point out that if the molester took her for an abortion with parental consent he should have been charged with that, but I’m not inclined to make those arguments in legal cases. So I agree, we can’t say whether the abuse continued after the abortion. We can only trust that decent people will refrain from ghoulishly capitalizing on a child’s suffering by using the story to make untenable claims in support of their pet political causes.
Yea it is the clinic’s fault this girl was molested… No responsibility to the pervert, or the parents, or her school, or anyone else who’s job it is to keep this child safe… Nope it is the abortion clinic’s fault for not forcing her to keep the baby of her attacker and make her a mother at 11yo… As far as reporting goes, there is not enough facts to this story for any level headed person to make any judgments about that. No state reporting laws or circumstances of the abuse are listed in this story. I am not saying reporting was the right or wrong thing to do here I am just saying there are not enough facts in this story to pass that judgment.
It is very telling that you guys jump on the clinic first thing without considering the other factors of the case. You are pointing the finger without enough facts but that’s what you guys do…
You must have “Yea, though I walk through the valley of death” stuck in your mind. Understandable, considering what side you’re on. Pity you don’t have the rest of the psalm at heart. Yeah.
Did they report the abuse to child protective services? (the clinic) Eleven year olds aren’t mature enough to consent to sex!
Hope that man goes to jail for a long time and no parole.
Biggz- The CLINIC failed this girl, too. A pregnant 11-year-old is a crime. It’s pedophilia. 11-year-olds can’t consent to sex, even sex with another child. This is rape at worst, failure to supervise at best. It’s a crime all the same.
Why don’t abortion clinics have any responsibility, Biggz? Is it because killing babies is your fetish porn?
So, is the rapist in jail awaiting his retroactive abortion?
“It is very telling that you guys jump on the clinic first thing without considering the other factors of the case.”
Medical providers are legally required to report abuse. If they don’t, they are violating the law. All pregnant 11 year old girls are victims of abuse. There is no way out of this for the clinic. They must report. For that matter, so must a teacher who is aware of it. She is a mandatory reporter as well. Those occupations which are licensed by the state are required to report. Teachers, police, doctors, nurses etc., are all licensed by the state for the express purpose of serving and protecting. The doctor should lose his license and so should the nurses.
Hippie, although bloggers are accusing the clinic of failing to report the rape, no news story indicates that the abortion was obtained prior to discovery of the abuse rather than after. No one has, therefore, offered evidence of the clinic’s misconduct. In a different thread, you say, “The burden of proof is always on the accuser.” Is that something you believe all the time, or only when you don’t agree with the accuser?