Posted on 06/17/2009 5:19:42 AM PDT by rhema
Abortionist George Tiller's death brought an outpouring of national media headlines and Congressional condolences to his family by a resolution approved by the US House. Laura Hope Smith's death at the hands of an abortionist was and continues to be ignored and her mother's effort to bring it to the attention of her senator was stonewalled.
"Where was the press when my daughter Laura died at the hands of an abortionist?" asks Eileen Smith, Laura's mother. A media search shows mostly news reports from nonprofit organizations, religious news and other alternative media.
Laura's death was mentioned 10 months later in one major publication, The Boston Globe, when the abortionist was indicted for manslaughter. It was 6 weeks before her local paper, The Cape Cod Times, mentioned Laura's death, although it sought out her mother for a two-hour interview just 2 days after Laura's death. Smith says the local newspaper rationalized delaying a report on Laura's death so it could corroborate it with an autopsy report.
"Since when has news been postponed in lieu of reporting facts except in the abortion deaths of the mothers?" asks Smith. "I have to believe that it is only because the media's bias toward abortion determines what makes news," she said.
"If Laura had died falling off a bike or in a car accident it would have been in the paper the next day," she said. "My daughter walked into that abortion facility healthy and she left dead," Smith said.
Smith believes Tiller's death is another senseless killing in the history of abortion, adding to the 50 million untimely deaths of unborn babies, including the 60,000 viable babies aborted by Tiller. "His death is a tragedy, but so are all the lives that were taken by him and the lives of over 400 women who have died as a result of an abortion," said Smith.
The abortionist was indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter in the death of Laura, following an investigation by local police and the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. The District Attorney found the abortionist's conduct to be "willful, wanton, and reckless" because he sedated Laura with level three drugs without any means of cardiac monitoring or blood pressure cuff; had no assistant who could administer sedation, monitor the patient, or assist in resuscitating her; and, "failed to timely initiate a call to 911." The board also alleged that the abortionist made false statements.
"I call on the media to report deaths like Laura's," said Smith. "If Tiller's death merits national news, so does a death at the hands of an abortionist," she added. Eileen Smith is available for interviews.
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Mathew Shepard, a homosexual, was killed during a robbery and a bogus movie was made out of the story. A 10 year old boy was tortured and killed by two homosexuals, and the media was forced by the public to report it. The media gave his life about 60 seconds, then silence.
Yes, the fact that there are 400 deaths of pregnant women getting a “settled-law-Roe V. Wade” abortion, which was SUPPOSEDLY all about making abortion efficient, and safe, and circumventing the very thing this fatal abortion actually brought about, is a subject you NEVER hear about.
I have frankly always wondered just how many deaths of women going back PRE- Roe V. Wade, were actually recorded, and just how extensive it was. We all know about “back-alley abortions”, we all know women lost their lives, but my feeling is and continues to be that the numbers were greatly inflated for partisan purposes, and the whole issue demagogued to the point where the exception(s) were made to justify “the rule”.
What I was hinting at in my post above was this:
In an age of untrammelled availability of abortion, and a
continuing culture of death legitimized by the very existence of abortion clinics operating EVERYWHERE, deaths like Laura Hope SMith’s are INEVITABLE. And I am wondering
just when the number of dead mothers AND babies will coincide in the age of accessible abortion with what they were Roe V. Wade.
Correction: meant to say, ‘with what they were PRIOR to Roe V. Wade.’
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Some might say the Kansas abortionist WASN’T murdered, but was just subjected to a post-partum abortion - the most extreme form of partial birth abortion. A retroactive one.
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