Basketball CEO sued for breaking promises to girlfriend after abortion
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a woman who dated [Brooklyn] Nets CEO Brett Yormark (pictured right) can’t sue him after she had an abortion.
Reyna Purcell claims Yormark promised to stay in their relationship and take her on vacation if she ended her pregnancy.
Purcell claims she wanted to keep the baby. She had an abortion in February 2011. Yormark ended the relationship shortly after.
Purcell sued Yormark last year. A judge dismissed the case, saying the promise was not in writing and attorneys were not present.
Purcell appealed. The appeals court on Friday upheld the lower court’s ruling, saying there is no legal recourse for ending a pregnancy and regretting the decision.
~ Associated Press, October 12
[Photo via Crain’s New York]
Oct.13, 2012 10:59 am |
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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.
This is why I do not get involved with “pro-choice” men. They are scum.
As much as I want to feel bad for her. I can’t find any sympathy. In the long run, she made the “choice” to end her unborn child’s life so she could ” continue” the life she enjoyed with a “promise” of the man staying with her and a vacation. I really see no grounds on the lawsuit. It was her call, if she believed what Brett said. Then she has herself to blame.
The guy is murderer. He is part of baby-killing mafia that support and fund PP.
However, this comment by the court is very illuminating. Women have no legal recourse for two reasons: 1) the baby can’t be revived – so there is no way for the abortion provider or the scumbag boyfriend from making true restitution; 2) the courts not only don’t value the preborn but they don’t value the feelings of women. With resepct to this second point I can’t think of anything more sexist than that.
Are you listening, ladies??????
ABORTION WORKS FOR MEN.
P.S. Can’t think of any vacation that is worth me killing my baby. Really???
Let’s pray for the preborn child that was lost.
Sorry, i have no sympathy for her, would she still regret it if he had taken her.
@Tyler
she killed her kid for a vacation! she is not a victim here.
A friend of mine found out she was pregnant the week after she ended a several-years-long relationship with an older, established man in her church community. He offered her $25,000 over two years ($15,000 the first, $10,000 the second) if she would have an abortion. That’s more money than she makes in a single year!
Her daughter just turned 1 month old. :)
She called him when she went into labor – he had said, many times, that he was uninterested in being there but she thought maybe he would change his mind once it actually came up. He didn’t. But a week later he texted and said, “Long labor or easy one? Hope things are going well.” How sweet.
Your friend is an awesome person Alexandra.
I think it is stupid that this lady tried to sue for some promise her loser boyfriend made. So… Everytime someone lies in a relationship we should be suing? I should sue my ex for all kindsa stuff, haha. This guy is a cad and this woman seems like those litigious spoiled types. I’m sad their kid died for their personality flaws.
U-104, I disagree – she lost a child. She is a fool and a victim. A victim of her own foolishness. Furthermore, my original point is that the courts are not listening and have not listened to the feelings of the vast majority of women who abhor abortion or regret their abortion. In 1973 the court was bullied into supporting abortion by a few loud mouth women, falsely claiming to represent all women. These loud mouth activists stated that women need to be able to have abortion on demand. The courts didn’t care if this was truly how all women felt about abortion, the court only care about the bribe money they received from the drug companies and the accolades received from appeasing the adoring abortion activists. This court cared more about their reputations than justice.
@Tyler
If she’s a victim than so is he, she killed their kid for a vacation, not for a marriage, not for a Home to live in, but for a vacation. he may have handed her the gun but she willingly pulled the trigger.
“pregnant the week after she ended a several-years-long relationship with an older, established man in her church community.” ah christians the guards of all that is moral and decent… eh when they feel like it.
In the long run, she made the “choice” to end her unborn child’s life so she could ” continue” the life she enjoyed with a “promise” of the man staying with her and a vacation
To quote Mother Teresa, it is a great poverty to kill a child so that you may live as you wish. That is the rationale behind many abortions, women and their partners want to live as they wish, and many are nonchalant about it. That’s why I get so tired of prolifers painting ALL women who have abortions as innocent deer in the headlights.
ah christians the guards of all that is moral and decent… eh when they feel like it.
Sadly, many Christians are hypocrites, but some of us do try to live our faith.
“That’s why I get so tired of prolifers painting ALL women who have abortions as innocent deer in the headlights. ”
Makes two of us.
“some of us do try to live our faith”
That’s good to hear.
She killed her baby for a VACATION???? That’s what their baby’s life was worth to both of them….the price of a vacation???
And not even an actual vacation…just the “suggestion” of a vacation! :l
Pray Ms. Purcell meets the one who will never lie to her, never leave her or forsake her, and died that this sin might be cleansed, along with all her others, yet rose that she may praise Him forever. And may she find comfort that her child was safeguarded by the only one who could save her soul.
Yormack played the serpent to Purcell’s Eve. May the Lord strike the serpent’s control over her life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHcVTbyJqis
Great video Chris! Thanks!
U-104 – I have not said she is innocent. I said she is victim. The man is also a victim. Both are victims of a society that permits abortion, original sin, and human weakness. I do not for one second deny this woman’s culpability in murdering her preborn child. However, many people who obtain abortions appear to prolifers as cold calculating killers when many of these people are simply deceived. They are operating under a deception, a deception fostered and maintained by the Democratic party.* Furthermore, she and this man lost a child. What else do you call people who lose children? Even though she willfully arranged her child’s death – she is still a victim.
*The Democratic party was not always synonymous with the Culture of Death but now they are – the new name of the Culture of Death is the Democratic party, the Culture of Death has been furnished with a political platform.
The lawsuit is absurd. People often make decisions they later regret. This is true even if there is no moral dimension to the decision.
One of the reasons my friends at the Anti-Sexual Stronghold oppose romantic love as well as casual sex is because romance fosters deceptions and false promises. People in such relationships often make promises they don’t even intend to keep. The vacation may have been in this category. Then again, he could have been sincere but then lost feeling for her and so ended the relationship.
While she claims she wanted to bring the pregnancy to term, it doesn’t seem like this was a powerful desire or she wouldn’t have traded the pregnancy for a vacation.
@Chris Arsenault
could pray for both of them.
Tyler, I do not believe they are victims. We all have a free will. I get tired of hearing people say that someone is a “victim” of “society.” This is an adult woman. No one was putting a gun to her head. Like Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of lentil porridge, she destroyed her child for a stinkin’ VACATION!
so did he.
He left her even after he got his “wish” of having his child killed. She may be a guilty fool, but he is a flat-out a$$****.
I wonder if he had taken her on the vacation she would have tried to find a way to “get him” anyways. Seems to me she probably realizes what a STUPID decision that was and now she wants her baby back. And it is too late. What a bitter pill to swallow.
This is really, really, sad. If a woman (even just one) would have an abortion just for a vacation, that is as much refutation as I will ever need for the famous “trust women” slogan we hear so much about.
A proper judgement would have been to find them both guilty for conspiracy to commit murder.
Many years ago I read an article by a doctor who treated infertility. One day a patient came to him. He was puzzled because her body was unusually cold. In order to make the appointment with sperm fresh in her which she was supposed to, she and her husband had engaged in sex at his place of work. The only privacy was in a place like a freezer. Doc commented, “She wanted to have a baby that badly.”
The woman who sued didn’t want to have a baby.
This does remind me of my friend who is certain a woman he impregnated would have had an abortion: “Because I would have made her life so miserable she would have had to abort just to get some peace.” My friend would have harassed. This guy dangled a vacation. The result was the same.
Jesus had compassion on a woman caught in adultery in a society which despised adultery. How much more would He have compassion for a woman in a society where abortion is legal and celebrated as a touchstone of human dignity?
She traded her baby for a vacation and a relationship. That was indeed an irrational decision. But all of us can make irrational decisions because of the emotion of the moment. Purcell bears responsibility for her decision, but she is not the only one who bears responsibility. Matthew 18:6-7. For this, she deserves compassion.
Hi Phillymiss.
I agree with your insightful statement and I fully acknowledge that human beings have free will, which requires adults to take responsibility for their actions. However, as I have aged, I do notice that a lot of things happen to people that are beyond their control. To make matters worse, a lot of these influences are unseen. If a person is not aware of these unseen forces bent on destroying otherwise good people then that person is going to be very susceptible to being influenced by these unseen powers to do bad things. For instance, I think that the mass media does have the power to persuade people, and to magnify the pressure people feel from their peers. But since the media can be used for good and pressure people to do good things another unseen entity must be manipulating the media to promote evil. To me the Devil is the cause of many of these evils. The Devil, an unseen entity, is working harder than ever to corrupt as many souls as he can. I recognize not all people believe there is a Devil, and that the existence of the Devil does not alleviate human beings of their moral responsibility. Nonetheless, I do feel the need to concede that human beings, who, though fallen, were originally created good by God in their nature, are victims when the Devil deceives them into doing evil acts. Acknowledging the Devil’s role in these horrible acts allows me to acknowledge that the human being involved in these horrible evil acts can be redeemed if only they repent and seek the forgiveness of Jesus. The Devil has been placed under his Mother’s heel/his heel.
In short, Grace not only supercedes the human free will but the Devil does as well. Fortunately, Grace defeats the Devil. If a person doesn’t believe in the Devil as a spiritually entity the person ends up being a Manichean/materialist or materialist Manichean.
I agree with prolifist.
Perhaps I should have said that a who person who does not believe in the Devil ends up believing, like the Manicheans, that the material world, and the flesh, itself, is evil.
This is really, really, sad. If a woman (even just one) would have an abortion just for a vacation, that is as much refutation as I will ever need for the famous “trust women” slogan we hear so much about.
Or the argument that abortion is something women don’t take lightly. Apparently quite a few do.
I am not trying to demonize women who have abortions, but they aren’t all victims or angels, either.
I am not trying to demonize women who have abortions, but they aren’t all victims or angels, either.
C’mon, Phillymiss. We should always Trust Women.