We cannot put them or put ourselves back together again, but God can, in this sacred place where God meets us where we are; in this holy place where we hand over not only Jennifer and Madison to our God, we also hand ourselves over as well.

~ Reverend Martin Biglin, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in New Rochelle, New York, referencing ‘the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” to compare the grieving family, friends and others to “broken” people’ during the funeral of LeRoy Carhart’s recent victim, Jennifer Morbelli, as reported by the Lower Hudson Journal, February 13

UPDATE 2/16 12:11p: I received the following information from a sidewalk counselor at Carhart’s Germantown clinic:

In July 2012 we had a save who was ~27 weeks. She gave us her blue paperwork from Carhart’s, different from the one Jill posted. I copied it on white paper, attached.

These instructions do tell patients to go to the ER, but only if unable to reach Carhart’s clinic. The fact remains for a period of time Carhart instructed his patients not to go to the ER. The relevant portion of the instructions is below. Click to enlarge. Read them in their entirety here and here.

2/14 2:06p: I wrote earlier this week that the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office has opened a criminal investigation against Germantown Reproductive Health Services in the wake of a complaint lodged by Germantown Pregnancy Choices of it illegally dumping biohazardous and medical waste.

Although the complaint was filed in November 2012, it appears obvious the Maryland AG’s February 11 announcement of its criminal investigation came in response to the February 7 death of Jennifer Morbelli, a 29-yr-old patient of GRHS’s sole late-term abortionist, LeRoy Carhart.

There were other documents retrieved by pro-lifers from Carhart’s trash aside from those of which I posted photos.

Also collected between August 2011 and May 2012 were Carhart’s (pictured right) instructions to patients. There were three sheets found, all on the same color blue paper, two of three stating they were revised in October 2010. Since the previous revision was made 16 years earlier, it is reasonable to expect Morbelli was given these same instructions.

Of greatest interest, particularly in the wake of Morbelli’s tragic death, which came after the abortion of her 33-wk-old baby Madison Leigh, were Carhart’s instructions not to go to the ER in the event of an emergency, but instead to “call and we will meet you at the clinic,” which is clearly dangerous medical advice.

Furthermore, who is “we”? Carhart left the state the afternoon Morbelli’s abortion was completed.

In addition, if it is true, as was maintained by an informant close to the situation, that Morbelli’s family tried several times to unsuccessfully contact Carhart before going to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’s ER, then this document is at the very least misleading, stating, “One of our staff is on-call 24 hours a day.” Again, that staff does not necessarily include the doctor himself. Click to enlarge…

In this case, Carhart’s self-serving motive at the expense of patient safety is to contain publicity about negative reactions to abortions.

Also, because Carhart has no hospital privileges – anywhere – his impotence as a primary care physician is that much more glaring when he is barred from an ER to provide contiguous care to a patient.

Did Jennifer Morbelli’s family delay getting her emergency medical treatment based on Carhart’s instructions? I hope they saved all their paperwork.

In addition was the following information on another Carhart document, particularly poignant in the wake of Morbelli’s death:

Death: Abortion is one of the safest operations in all medicine. The risk of a woman dying from full-term pregnancy & childbirth is over 10 times greater than that from an advanced gestation abortion.

Read bottom paragraph. Click to enlarge:

Professor Michael New succinctly explained in a September 2012 NRO piece how “the data to back up this claim are, to put it charitably, misleading.” In fact, New explained just the opposite is actually the case, that there is “very strong evidence that giving birth in in fact safer than obtaining an abortion.”

At the very least Carhart was attempting to downplay the increased risk of late-term abortions, which even Planned Parenthood acknowledges.

[HT for photographs: Maryland Coalition for Life]

by Kelli

UPDATE 2/14, 12:06p: From Stuff.co.nz comes the news that parents of the young girl who gave birth at Zoquipan Hospital in Mexico, photo right, were not honest with authorities, either about her age or the circumstances of her pregnancy:

[P]rosecutors said Wednesday that DNA tests revealed the baby’s father is the girl’s 44-year-old stepfather and that he is under arrest.

They said an anthropological study of the girl showed she is between 12 and 13. The girls’ parents didn’t have a birth certificate for her and initially told authorities she was nine.

by LauraLoo

2/8, 12p: On January 27, a Mexican girl named only as Dafne (now age 9) gave birth to a baby girl in Jalisco state, Mexico.

According to Dafne’s mother, the baby’s father (age 17) is missing after running away. Abortion would have hidden the crime.

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by Hans Johnson

A 16-year-old girl has filed suit against her parents, who she says are trying to coerce her to get an abortion. Among the claims are that her mother “invited the paternal grandparents to a bar for further discussion where she suggested that she might slip her an abortion pill through deception” and that her father threatened not only her, but the baby’s father and grandmother.

Her attorney, Stephen Case of the Texas Center for Defense of Life, says she has the right to refuse because “What Roe established is minors have the choice. And when they do make the choice, folks are shocked they want to carry the baby.”

LifeNews reports that just yesterday, a judge from the 215th District Court of Harris County, Texas, issued a temporary restraining order “prohibit[ing] the parents… from coercing her to have an abortion against her will.”

From ABC News:

Another hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Fox News also has a legal discussion of the case.

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I’m not going to be intimidated out of what I feel passionate about…

We can’t let fear rule our lives….

This was a building that was full of love and compassion for women. To me, this feels like a very positive space.

~ Julie Burkhart, proprietor of the Kansas abortion clinic formerly operated by the late George Tiller, remarking on her plans to re-open and “have two doctors regularly fly into town to perform the [up to 14 weeks gestational age] procedures,” as quoted by The New York Times, February 13

The Daily Beast also has an enlightening interview with Burkhart.

[Photo via Allison Yarrow/The Daily Beast]

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Pro-abortion U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke last week at Harvard Law School and was inevitably asked a question about abortion:

I took Professor Klarman’s constitutional law class last semester. We talked a lot about backlash created by judicial decisions, especially in abortion, and the death penalty, and gay rights. And I was just curious whether you think that he was accurate, that court decisions can create large backlash and whether other movements should be wary of creating that through the court system.

Her response:

I don’t think that the anti-abortion movement – that it was just Roe v. Wade. That movement existed before Roe v. Wade. It existed after. I do think that the way the Court went about reaching its decision did give them a target that they could aim at that they didn’t have before. But the court decision is hardly what created the movement.

I should say that – because I’ve been criticized for – ‘She’s against Roe v Wade.’ No, I’m not. I’m very much for the judgment that the Court rendered, dealing with what was the most extreme law in the country, where a woman could get an abortion only if it was necessary to save her life . Could be disastrous for her health and it wouldn’t matter.

The Court easily could have said, “We’ll deal with the Texas law. That’s what’s before us. We’ll declare that unconstitutional, because it’s much too far out in disregarding the situation of the woman. But we then put our pen down, and we wait for the next case,” which is how the Court usually operates.

This was an unusual judicial decision because it made every law in the country, even the most, quote, liberal, unconstitutional in one fell swoop. And that’s not the way the Court ordinarily operates.

So that was my critique – not of the judgement but of the giant step that the court took instead of proceeding by slow degrees.

Justice Ginsburg believes the Roe decision gave pro-lifers a “target” to collectively aim at, rather than incohesively and much less powerfully sperading our energies among the states.

Reading between the lines, Ginsburg believes there would be much less rancor about abortion had it slowly been eased into the public consciousness.

This buttresses my thought that walking abortion back incrementally – as we are forced to do at present whether we like it or not – is a winning strategy.

Harvard Gazette quoted another interesting thought from Ginsburg, the last sentence in particular.

Ginsburg also took issue with the notion that the court should be responsible for fixing society’s ills.

“It’s rare that a court will move unless the people want them to. … Before every major change, it was people who saw that the laws were wrong, wanted them to change, were fighting to capture other people’s minds, and then trying to get legislative change,” that pushed issues along. “Then the court is the last resort. … It has to be the people who want the change, and without them no change will be lasting.”

In the case of Roe, people weren’t asking for the change. Only liberals were. They thought the change would cement legalized abortion. But it hasn’t. As Ginsburg said, “It has to be the people who want the change, and without them no change will be lasting.”

That’s what we are seeing with the growing opposition to legalized abortion.

Finally, liberal schizophrenia never fails to puzzle me. Again from the Harvard Gazette:

She recalled the first time she voted in a death penalty case and how she stayed awake until after the execution into early hours of the morning, crying.

See video of Ginsburg’s abortion comments at CNSNews.com.

[Photo via the Harvard Gazette]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• USA Today picked up the story of Jennifer Morbelli’s post-abortion death.
• The Stir’s Adriana Velez is the first pro-choicer that I’ve seen attempt to comment on Morbelli’s death (quite a difference from Savita Halappanavar). A search at the RH Reality Check web site for Morbelli returns 0 results.Velez thinks one must be “a heartless ideologue” to protest the clinic whose practices led to Morbelli’s death. One wonders if she felt the same way regarding the protests after Halappanavar’s death.
• Michael New describes the implications of the fact that “the best predictor of someone’s attitude toward abortion is his or her opinion on the morality of premarital sex.”
• In India, a man was sentenced to 7 years in prison after raping his cousin and coercing her to have an abortion:
  

  Gupta assured the girl that he would marry her and developed physical relations with her on the false promise of marriage, the police said. It said that consequently, the girl became pregnant and the accused took her to a hospital, where against her wishes she was made to undergo abortion on the pretext that it was done to save her life.

• A Michigan woman (who was previously told she could not conceive) gave birth to a 10-pound baby on the day she learned she was pregnant [daughter Kimberly Kay pictured left with her father, Mike]:
  

  Last week, Linda Ackley went to the doctor because she had some bloating in her abdomen.

  Believing she might have a hernia, the doctor sent her to an Allegiance Health facility for a computerized tomography or CT scan.

  The scan revealed she was pregnant.

  She would deliver in three to four weeks, medical professionals at first told the Ackleys. After a second ultrasound, however, the couple learned Linda Ackley had carried the baby a full term, 40 or more weeks.

[Photo by AP/The Jackson Citizen Patriot, via The Times Herald]

by LauraLoo

A Florida judge recently approved the adoption of Emma, a baby girl that will list three people as parents on her birth certificate – a lesbian couple and a gay man.

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Is this part of the “slippery slope” society claims will never actually lead to further immorality? 

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