Unborn child of Dark Knight movie shooting victim may help mother cope
Ashley Moser [pictured right] was also shot by James Holmes, and she is still in the hospital recovering. Relatives just broke the news to her about losing her beloved daughter in the shooting, and she reportedly broke down in tears and said she wants to die. But as it turns out, she actually has a very important reason to live.
Ashley Moser is pregnant, and even though she was shot in the stomach, somehow her unborn baby managed to survive.
And while the baby isn’t out of the woods yet, I have to believe that this is the one thing that is going to give Ashley the strength to go on and somehow pick up the pieces of her life after losing her little girl.
~ Mary Fischer, reporting on the pregnancy of the mother of Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the six-year old Dark Knight Rises midnight premiere shooting victim, Cafe Mom, July 23
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.
Speechless… only faith…May God grant her the Grace to continue.
What? Doesn’t she realize that it’s a blob in there?
I wondered when she was due. Couldn’t find any reports on that. And was the baby shot? Or just the mother’s stomach was shot but missed the baby?
God bless this mother and protect her and her little one and comfort her broken heart as she mourns for her precious daughter.
I will always remember the one scene from the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy that was by far the most difficult for me to watch.
It was immediately after the burial of King Theodin’s son. Theodin looked at Gandalf and said:
“No parent should have to bury their child.”
And then he broke down … and I nearly joined him then as I nearly did just now.
I’m not a father, but if I feel that kind of sorrow at the thought of someone else losing a child, I tremble at the thought of experiencing it myself.
To that end, I really appreciated the last line in the article:
“What words of comfort would you offer to this mother?”
This reminds me of a discussion we had here a few months ago about mothers who have lost a child to miscarriage and how we can best help them to heal and, perhaps more importantly, avoid making their pain worse through carelessness on our part. I also remember that discussion being refreshingly fruitful.
So, in the wake of this tragedy, and knowing that many of us will, unfortunately, be faced with this same question in our lives (I already have twice), I’m hoping I can have some feedback on this question.
I must admit that I don’t have much of an answer; I was fortunate both times that I was not front and center, and thus my inexperience didn’t result in the situation worsening. Sooner or later, though, I fully expect that my response will be the only one available, and I will have to be prepared to be a balm, not a thorn.
So far, my entire response is simply a hug and an open ear. I’m good at that.
I wish her the best. It must be difficult to be hit with such a tragedy at a time that should have brought so much joy.
Ugh – I couldn’t imagine losing a child.
I had a friend who thought they were going to lose a child – it looked very, very likely – she said she had the overwhelming urge to just run and jump out of a hospital window.
I pray she finds peace and understanding through this, and pray that her pregnancy goes well.
My heart just breaks in two for her.
I’m waiting for a pro choicer to claim the baby will forever torment her as a reminder unless she aborts.
She lost the baby. The man robbed this woman of both her children. I dare ANY Pro-Choicer to tell her otherwise to her face.
Ashley Moser has suffered a miscarriage, attributed to the trauma of the shooting.
I believe that the miscarriage will not affect the charges for the shooter. This raises a question for me. I thought that President Bush signed some law related to the Scott Petersen trial saying that a death to an unborn fetus could be tried as murder…why did they not charge the colorado shooter with another murder?
I just hope that it was, indeed, a miscarriage as they are saying. I hope that it wasn’t a case of Ashley wanting an abortion or being told by anyone that she should abort her baby. She is paralyzed and in immense emotional despair because of losing Veronica. Who knows what would go through anyone’s mind in her condition. I just have a bad feeling that it might not be as they’re reporting it, a miscarriage.
ST3, I believe the Unborn Victims of Violence Act signed by President Bush applies only to federal crimes. Murder is generally a state crime, so whether the shooter can be charged with an additional murder depends on whether or not the state government has extended the fetal homicide laws to include state crimes as well. Colorado is regrettably one of the few that hasn’t.