Pro-life news brief 10-16-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The Maryland Board of Physicians has closed the probe into abortionist LeRoy Carhart in the death of Jennifer Morbelli from complications of a late-term abortion:
In his first direct comments on the case, Carhart said: “I totally believe that we did everything as correctly as possible.“It’s a horrendous thing for the family and it’s hard for me. I think about it every day.”
- At The Hill, Marjorie Dannenfelser discusses how most late-term abortions are elective.
- AL.com has the story of Auburn’s 100th homecoming queen and her pro-life story:
Molly Anne Dutton made headlines on Saturday when she was crowned Auburn’s 100th homecoming queen.This week, the 22-year-old horticulture student is making headlines, again; but it’s the story behind her unique “Light up LIFE” platform that’s getting all the attention this time around.
Dutton is the daughter of a young, married woman who survived a sexual assault in California and became pregnant, according to a news release this week from “Light up LIFE,” the horticulture club-based group that ran her campaign. To compound matters, the woman’s husband gave her an ultimatum: Abort the baby or get a divorce.
Rather than having the abortion, Dutton’s mom chose to move to Alabama and carry the baby to term. She worked with Lifeline Children’s Services, a Christian adoption group in Birmingham, Ala., to place the child in a home.
[Photo via ctpost.com]
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.
Just to chime in on Carharts quote…I think about it every day…..you really do? Maybe you will repent soon. Also YOU SHOULD!!
“I totally believe that we did everything as correctly as possible.”
Well, except for, you know, performing the abortion in the first place. This whole thing could have been avoided if you had simply not done that.
Jdc…i know its not a laughing matter but you had me laughing there. Omg I needed that!
I think we did everything as correctly as possible….i doubt that considering shes deceased…and do you think about Christen Gilbert every day? Do you think about how many children you have killed every day? Perhaps you should start thinking about quitting every day until you actually DO it! There may be hope for you yet Leroy!
Also my above post should read YOU SHOULD think about it every day!!!
“Jdc…i know its not a laughing matter but you had me laughing there.”
Thanks. It honestly wasn’t intended as a joke or anything. It is honestly a statement of fact.
You got away with murder, Carhart. How does leaving town, giving out your horse business phone number as your emergency contact, hiring unskilled labor, etc. etc. remotely mean you did everything possible? While I cannot prove it, I would not be surprised if there were payoffs involved.
If it was my loved one, I would still file a wrongful death suit against you and your associates.
Good to read about Molly Anne Dutton again. What an exemplar for young women everywhere.
Mj i would do the same! Maybe thats why he cant stop thinking about it. Im sure her family is upset.
If it was my loved one, I would still file a wrongful death suit against you and your associates.
I really hope they sue the ____ out of him. It makes me sick that he just gets to walk away while the family is going to have to live with this for the rest of their lives.
“While I cannot prove it, I would not be surprised if there were payoffs involved.”
I wouldn’t be super surprised if this was the case, but I think it was most likely just the result of the pro-choice political culture in Maryland. Given how much low pro-choice forces keep Gosnel in business in Pennsylvania, things are probably worse in a more left leaning state.
regarding J. Morrelli’s story: still, there is no report of what the birth defect or deformity was. Therefore, no one can really assess how reasonable it might have been to perform the abortion. It seems that if there were a clear issue, someone would come out and declare what it was, and tell us all what an impossible chance at living much longer the child would have had.
If anyone knows what the birth defect was, please note it here, if you can.
Abortion has never cured any sort of birth defect.
It does not matter if the defect was minor and correctible (cleft palate) or severe and terminal (absence of any major organ), the result is the same: Both mother and child were killed unnecessarily, before their time.
My sister lost a child to a severe defect: The boy had almost no diaphragm and would not be able to breath. She even considered going to Tiller, briefly. They decided to carry the child to term. They baptized him and gave him the name “Adam.” They lavished him with love and comfort for the few hours that they were able to enjoy together. The extended family continues to love and mourn his life. There was even a small miracle recently, evidence that Adam was present for the death of grandfather last month. (My dad was fiercely devoted to his grandkids, and never forgot to include Adam in his love.)
An abortion would have robbed us all of this, and placed his mother at unnecessary risk as well. Why would we ever encourage anyone to do this?
Yeah Carhart,
Everything correctly. If you consider leaving a patient with no coverage while you skip town as doing everything correctly. This woman had just delivered a dead 8 month baby and you sent her back to her hotel like she just had an ingrown toenail trimmed. Her distraught family wasted precious time trying to reach you then finally took Jennifer to the hospital where the ER staff and specialists on call were left to handle a catastrophe.
Your patient may have died of “natural causes” but that does nothing to excuse you. She had a chance for survival had she rec’d immediate medical care.
I hope her family does sue. I hear the family of Tanya Reeves has lawyered up. I hope they go for everything they can get from the PP that let Tanya bleed for hours before calling the paramedics.
Your sister has been through a sad experience Del.
They decided to carry the child to term. They baptized him and gave him the name “Adam.” They lavished him with love and comfort for the few hours that they were able to enjoy together. – and that is perfectly fine for those who choose this path Del. But can you recognise that for some people this would increase the stress and trauma? That a conclusion to the experience sooner rather than later might be preferable?
An abortion would have…..placed his mother at unnecessary risk…. – how do you draw that conclusion?
Del can you tell us more about Adam being there when your grandfather passed away?
Mary..good to know about the Reeves family!
Martin Ruddock…Cleveland OH abortionist continued to thumb his nose at the Ohio health department. A former pt. sued him and won a 1 million $ lawsuit after she required a hysterectomy post abortion. The clinic wasnt even monitoring vital signs pre op. His clinic is closed for good as of just 2 days ago.
Ive heard Ruddock has left the state but has plans to ” possibly help women” in another state. I hope not but as for now we must look at this as a victory. As of now he is not able to harm anymore women or children. I hope his abortion shack is demolished!
Wow! Just read the Tonya Reaves story…tragic. Left to bleed to death for 5 hours. I was reading the autopsy report. Had 911 been called she could have been saved. The hospital even performed a hysterectomy in a last ditch effort. The coroner stated that her uterus was ragged…it arrived in a bag with her body d/t the hysterectomy. The uterus was full of blood and otherwise TR was in perfect health.
I wasnt familiar with everything that had transpired with the Reaves case…but its fact that the family has lawyered up.
As far as pay offs go..anything is possible but ive read several articles where abortionists botched abortions and killed women. The choice crowd always had the abortionists back. They can do NO wrong and they get plenty of liberal support. so sad but true.
Reality,
My mother is going to die someday, and it will be difficult and traumatic for me to bury her. My children have only had a small amount of time to get to know her, but if she continues to live they might get attached and it could be incredibly difficult for them when she passes. Maybe I should hire someone to end her now before that attachment can grow any more?
Seriously backwards and ridiculous logic.
The seriously backward and ridiculous logic MaryRose is comparing a mature age woman who is known, loved or otherwise by however many people with an unviable gestating fetus.
As I said before, if some people choose to carry to term, spend time and then go through the rituals they choose, that is fine.
Why would you force people to follow that particular path if all it does is extend and increase the stress and trauma they are already enduring. For some, ending the experience sooner rather than later is the healthier course.
I know that I should but I can’t let her ridiculous post go unanswered. No “reality” your “logic is seriously backward and ridiculous that paying someone to intentionally mutilate and murder your baby will decrease ”stress and trauma” and intentionally killing your baby to “end the experience” of having a dead baby “sooner rather than later is NOT the healthier course”. Wow! You are indeed a sick person.
I will say for all of the mothers like myself (and father’s like my husband) who knew, loved and bonded with our babies before they were born “How dare you say that an “unviable gestating fetus” is not “known or loved”. That is ridiculous except in the mind of a cold-blooded pro-abort. For those of you who have experienced stillbirths, miscarriages, early infant death and abortions (like Carla and others) I am insulted for you by her pathetic, callous assertions.
“For some, ending the experience sooner rather than later is the healthier course.”
We’re not talking about an “experience”. We’re talking about a life. Ending someone’s life “sooner rather than later” because having them live their life is just too stressful an “experience” for you … should be illegal.
Opps. Sorry I referred to “reality” as “her” I meant to write “his”.
Who says that how many people love you determines how valuable you are?
On what basis Prolifer L, do you get to decide whether people find it more or less stressful and traumatic to continue a pregnancy which will result in death at birth compared to carrying to term and delivering.
You can only speak from your perspective, not that of others.
You have no rationale on which to claim that it is not the healthier choice for some. You have no idea how they may be impacted by the situation and its outcomes.
The only ‘assertion’ I have made is that for some people the path you and those you allude to would choose may not be the right path for them.
I am not being callous or insulting towards those who have experienced stillbirths, miscarriages, early infant deaths or abortions. If anything it is you who is being callous and insulting by demanding that women adhere to the course of action you might choose. And by inferring that all women find abortions stressful and traumatic.
They’re not going to ‘live their life’ Lrning. That’s the point. So why put people through the increased stress and trauma which may arise from continuing to term.
I’ll make it even clearer for you –
I fully agree that stillbirths, miscarriages and early infant deaths are almost universally devastating for the women or couples concerned (not so for abortion – stillbirths, miscarriages and early infant deaths aren’t something people choose, abortion is).
Finding out that your gestating fetus is unviable and may not live until or beyond birth is also devastating.
Which path people then choose to follow, what course of action they decide upon, will have an effect on the extent to which their associated stress and trauma is exacerbated or ameliorated.
Neither you nor I are in a position to dictate which path people should choose, or to judge them for it.
Finding out that your toddler has terminal cancer or a fatal genetic defect and may not live through or beyond childhood is also devastating.
Which path people then choose to follow, what course of action they decide upon, will have an effect on the extent to which their associated stress and trauma is exacerbated or ameliorated.
Neither you nor I are in a position to dictate which path people should choose, or to judge them for it.
Agree or disagree?
Evidently if I determine that your life will end poorly, prematurely, or with trauma to me, then I should have the right to decide to end your life now so as to prevent further injury, hurt, or trauma to me.
Because your value is completely subjective to how it affects me/how you affect me.
“They’re not going to ‘live their life’ Lrning. That’s the point. ”
They most certainly are going to live their life. That entire life may be short and lived only in the womb, or may extend a short time after birth, or may last 70 years. Every human deserves to live whatever life they have, without someone (their mother!) deciding that their life is too traumatic an “experience” and killing them instead.
Finding out that your toddler has terminal cancer or a fatal genetic defect and may not live through or beyond childhood is also devastating. – yes it is.
Which path people then choose to follow, what course of action they decide upon, will have an effect on the extent to which their associated stress and trauma is exacerbated or ameliorated. – theirs and the childs, yes.
Neither you nor I are in a position to dictate which path people should choose, or to judge them for it. – that is correct.
Agree or disagree? – with what exactly?
Evidently if I determine that your life will end poorly, prematurely, or with trauma to me, then I should have the right to decide to end your life now so as to prevent further injury, hurt, or trauma to me. – certainly MaryRose, once you’ve demonstrated that I am in your womb.
It is the woman, the couple concerned, who experience the stress and trauma of the situation Lrning, not a gestating fetus.
Reality,
Just curious as to whether your rationale extends to the born as well as the unborn and apparently it does.
Your assumption is incorrect Mary.
It might be time to stop feeding the troll. He has nothing of value to say, so why bother?
:-)
Seeing that tmeister actually got “likes” for his pro-abort statements makes me wonder if those that clicked the thumbs up button truly understood them.
Or might it be that it is you who has misunderstood Thomas R.?