Pro-life news brief 4-26-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- NBC New York: Police are investigating the report of an “apparent human fetus” in a trash bag:
Police are investigating a report of an apparent human fetus found inside a trash bag on a Queens sidewalk Wednesday evening.A neighbor in East Elmhurst called 911 after spotting a black trash bag in front of her home at 99th Street and 31st Avenue.
She told police she kicked the bag, then reached in and saw a jar containing what looked like a human fetus.
- More than 100 Irish psychiatrists have signed a statement saying that abortion shouldn’t be legalized for threat of suicide:
[Consultant from Navan Hospital] Dr [Bernie] McCabe said: “I am not surprised that so many of our colleagues agree that the proposed legislation is flawed. As members of the medical profession, we have a duty to our patients to adopt best practice and an evidence-based approach to everything we do.The fact is that there is no evidence that abortion is a treatment for suicidality in pregnancy and may in fact be harmful to women. The Government must take this into account and reconsider its proposals.”
- A Georgia man has been charged in the death of his girlfriend and their unborn child:
Carlos Jerome Simpson was indicted Tuesday by a DeKalb grand jury on charges of murder, felony murder – killing someone while committing a felony – aggravated assault and possession of a gun during the commission of a felony.Simpson, 23, allegedly shot and killed Shikira Dunson outside his home on Feb. 18.
The 20-year-old Dunson was five months pregnant, so prosecutors added the charge of feticide, defined by Georgia law as willfully and without legal justification causing the death of an unborn child by any injury to the mother.
- Another man charged with killing his wife and unborn child now faces two 1st degree murder charges after authorities searched his computer:
The day before Margorie Holland died, Roger Holland made Internet searches asking: “if you pass out and fall down a flight of stairs, can you break your neck,” according to the criminal complaint against him.He made similar searches multiple times before that, Backstrom said.
Police found Margorie Holland at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the couple’s Apple Valley townhouse — though the county medical examiner concluded she died of strangulation, not a fall down the stairs.
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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.
The anonymous illegal abortionist whose story is on the Internet was motivated to begin performing illegal abortions after a young unmarried woman from a conservative family came to him seeking an abortion. I remember reading about an actress who committed suicide back in the 1950s. She was unmarried and pregnant.
Of course, others have pointed out that we can’t know for sure that they wouldn’t have committed suicide anyway. If they committed suicide because of the stigma, then it wasn’t the pregnancy per se but societal attitudes that led to their deaths.
Post abortive women try to commit suicide to end the pain of having paid someone to kill our child.
Would it be possible to induce a state of sleep for the months of the pregnancy? If the woman is miserable due to the physical changes of pregnancy, it might be possible to get her to carry to term by rendering her asleep all the time until after the birth. Or would it? Would this be medically possible?
@ Carla: I wrote the article for TruTV.com’s Crime Library about Fumiko Kimura, a post-abortive woman who killed her children but was rescued before she could kill herself. I also wrote an essay about the mother of the “Oldenburg Baby,” a Down Syndrome baby born alive in an abortion. The mother had a nervous breakdown and committed suicide 6 years later.
“Would it be possible to induce a state of sleep for the months of the pregnancy?”
This just might be your weirdest question yet. Congratulations. 9_9
During the administrative hearing over the medical license of Tiller’s associate, it was revealed that she signed off on abortions because the women said they contemplated suicide. They gave the moms an abortion but no referral to mental health providers. An expert witness testified that nowhere in the literature is it written that abortion is a treatment for depression or any other mental illness.