Life Links 11-4-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- A New York City man was convicted yesterday of killing his pregnant girlfriend:
Cops previously said Derrick Redd, 38, of Jamaica admitted that he ‘hadn’t believed the child was his and urged Niasha Delain, 25, to have an abortion.
Delain, a bank teller, was stabbed 20 to 30 times in her stomach and torso on Oct. 25, 2008, in her South Ozone Park apartment, according to the Queens district attorney’s office.
The fetus was stabbed five times.
New York doesn’t recognize the unborn child as a victim but according to the NY Daily News, Delain’s mother has started a campaign to change the law.
- The New Jersey hospital which forced nurses to participate in abortions says it will “temporarily stop requiring nurses to assist in performing abortions if they object on religious grounds” now that the nurses have filed suit with the Alliance Defense Fund.
- A woman in South Korea staged a one-woman protest against the grandmother of her child, whom she alleges tried to force her into an abortion. The grandmother, a university professor, denies the allegations:
Carrying her new-born baby in her arms, the 28-year-old stood holding a sign, reading “I became pregnant following my engagement. But my fiance’s mother broke us up when I was six months into the pregnancy. She then tried to force me to have an abortion right up until my eighth month.”
On the placard, she listed her complaints, using the real name of the professor and her department.
- At National Review, Christopher White of the World Youth Alliance demolishes Nicolas Kristof’s column which claims birth control is the solution to “many of the global problems that confront us.”
[Photo via Korea Times]
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.
“temporarily stop requiring nurses to assist in performing abortions if they object on religious grounds”
Ummm…what about nurses who disagree on scientific and secular grounds? They can know they are assisting in the killing of a very young human being-the pregnant woman’s child-and can’t do anything to prevent themselves from being FORCED to be an accessory to such a heinous act?
Right Xalisae. The nurses need to demand that they can and do refuse based on the fact that abortion kills a human. Period.
Proaborts bring up religion so they can claim that only religious rightwing fanatical biblethumping wingnuts actually oppose killing humans.
Ummm…what about nurses who disagree on scientific and secular grounds?
You’re right, not all prolifers are religious.
In response to the Korean woman whose grandmother wanted her to abort, I understand that an unwed pregnancy is considered very shameful in many Asian countries, which is why there is a great deal of pressure to abort.
There is a great deal of pressure in all cultures by grandparents for their children to abort the unborn grandchildren. In my own family, it has been the grandmothers who are the most coercive and yes abusive. I have witnessed verbal abuse with my own eyes and ears. One of my female relatives was forced into a car by her own mother and driven to an abortion facility. When she refused to get it done, her own mother beat her, punching and kicking her in the stomach repeatedly. It goes without saying that said grandmother is not welcome at family functions.
Many American teenagers and young adults are told by their own parents to abort or get out.
My baby niece or nephew was killed by abortion when the family of my brother’s girlfriend verbally and physically abused her into getting one. She wouldn’t listen to my brother asking her not to. He had no voice and his child was killed. Happy to hear that the woman above chose to let her baby live despite the grandmother’s abusive pressure.
Kris,
I am so sorry. That breaks my heart. :(
There is healing for your brother.
http://www.fatherhoodforever.org
btw
It is illegal to force or coerce a woman to have an abortion.
The Center Against Forced Abortion
http://thejusticefoundation.org/cafa/
“It is illegal to force or coerce a woman to have an abortion.”
but for how long? I mean, making it illegal doesn’t stop it. Therefore we should legalize it. Or so the stupid prochoice logic goes.
We simply must foster a culture that doesn’t treat babies like so much dust that can be swept under the rug. They never completely go away. Like the lump in the rug, there will always be echoes of that deliberate loss.
Carla~ Thank you for the resources. In the past I have passed those same resources along to him, but he doesn’t take any action. He seems to think that it is less painful to pretend that it never happened and not talk about it, than deal with his emotions. It is amazing how from the outside you can see how that act tangibly alters a person without their being able to see it as a root of a lot of their current problems, from not having dealt with it. A human life that is purposefully exterminated can never just simply slip away as if it never existed. That human life lost will inadvertently continue to be a haunting thread in the parents’ lives on some level. Abortion is more than an injustice.
Hans~ said “Like the lump in the rug, there will always be echoes of that deliberate loss.” Exactly.
You are welcome, Kris.
I am sorry your brother is choosing to not deal with the very real death and loss of his child. His child, your niece or nephew is with mine. I will carry the grief of the death of my daughter by abortion for the rest of my life.
There are resources for ALL family members that have been affected by an abortion. Siblings, grandparents, parents, boyfriends etc. Abortion affects us all.
But it’s just such a “simple procedure!!”
Eyeroll.
“temporarily stop requiring nurses to assist in performing abortions if they object on religious grounds”
Especially if the nurses tell them they are Muslim.
‘Cops previously said Derrick Redd, 38, of Jamaica admitted that he ‘hadn’t believed the child was his and urged Niasha Delain, 25, to have an abortion.”
So the pro-abort killed the mother of his child when she did not agree to an abortion.
About the New Jersey story, a very similar thing just happened here in New Zealand http://righttolife.org.nz/2011/10/21/further-staff-refuse-to-assist-in-the-killing-of-unborn-children/
@Carla do you know of any resources to help friends of women who have had abortions?
Off the top of my head
National Helpline for Abortion Recovery
http://www.nationalhelpline.org/
They will refer you to resources.
It has been my experience that the woman that aborted when she finds healing can be the one that helps her friends deal with it too. They need to know that she is ok and finding hope.
My roommate(who drove me to my abortion)still feels guilty. I continue to speak truth to her. She thought she was helping me. Now she is the Director of a Pregnancy Center!! I offer her the reassurance that I have indeed forgiven her and we fight abortion together!!
Thanks Carla! =)