Posted on 03/18/2015 2:28:02 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
There’s a lot that’s still confusing about the case of Purvi Patel. But one thing is clear: The 33-year-old from South Bend, Indiana, is facing up to 70 years in prison as the first pregnant woman to be convicted under Indiana’s “feticide” law.
t’s a case that cheers some anti-abortion advocates but has reproductive rights groups and doctors worried about how laws originally passed to protect pregnant women are now being used against them in court.
Patel comes from a family of Hindu immigrants from India. In the mostly Irish-Catholic town of South Bend, they kept to themselves. Patel worked to support her family and also lived with her ailing parents and grandparents, says Sue Ellen Braunlin, co-president of the Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice. Patel and her family are not talking with the media, but Patel is in frequent touch with Braunlin.
Braunlin says Patel came home from work early on July 13, 2013. She stayed in bed several hours, Braunlin says, thinking the pain she felt was related to sciatica. Then she went into the bathroom and “it just all fell out, is how she describes it ... gushing blood on the floor,” Braunlin says.
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It's such a tough job that they had to divide up the responsibilities of the presidency.
I guess I dont quite understand the story. It clearly says there were no traces of the drugs in her system?
I think before they lock her up and throw away the key they need to prove that she is lying about having a miscarriage and that she murdered a baby.
Jury must have found her guilty for a reason. I say it’s about time we started prosecuting women like her.
” On the way, she left the fetus, wrapped in paper towels and in layers of plastic bags, in a Dumpster behind a shopping center. “
This event says alot about proving the feticide...shows intent...if it wasn’t murder - then why didn’t she bring the baby to the hospital with her....???
Regardless - that’s no way to dispose of a baby...
Juries have also found old ladies guilty of attending witches sabbats and eating babies that were known by the jury to be unharmed. They can only work as instructed with the facts they are given. There doesn’t seem to be clarity in this case as to why the jury found as they did.
That was appalling and stupid, true enough.
While i agree the post baby treatment was horrible. .. how did she kill it if she didnt use any drugs??
I read the article and didn’t understand the guilty conviction either. No drugs found in the baby’s body. They couldn’t prove if the baby had taken a breath with the “do the lungs float” issue. I am hoping there was more to this story in case of evidence.
It’s about time. EVERY SINGLE WOMAN who has ever willingly gotten an abortion is a murderess, and should be prosecuted as such to the maximum extent of the law, even to the death penalty. Yes, I’m absolutely serious. The one who sheds blood shall give an account.
The prosecution used her own words against her, she sent text messages for a few months about how she didnt want the child, about ordering and then taking the drugs. She then asked her friend to help her clean up the bathroom when she delivered three days after taking the pills, then took everything including the child and threw all in a dumpster on her way to the hospital.
http://m.wsbt.com/news/first-day-of-testimony-in-trial-over-granger-newborns-death/30919216
I agree murder is murder, child or not. In fact child makes it worse in my book.
Again her and the baby tested NEG for any drugs??
I dont even know what she took, but depending on the drug it might have already been passed from her system.
If she didn’t take them, why did she order them, talk about taking them and how awful they tasted?
Regardless there is no doubt she didn’t want the baby and wanted to kill the child, and then tried to conceal the truth of everything. This linked article in op is leftwing liberal organization from Minnesota, the article I linked isn’t necessarily conservative, but is local to South Bend. Even more evidence details will probably be coming out soon.
I can tell you people around here that I know are primarily disgusted with this lady, if you could even call her that. I don’t live in South Bend, but nearby, and this story has been fairly big news since her arrest.
I think your right. Reading your link was much clearer. My apologies.
No problem, I was just trying to get some more info out there rather than this left biased article.
First degree murder. There is no statute of limitations for that. Eventually, if enough conservatives get elected, we’ll be able to see that justice is served.
I am hoping there was more to this story in case of evidence.
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Well there’s the womans testimony that the childs father was married and that she was attempting to hide the pregnancy from her own family... she cut the unbilical cord and wrapped the baby in plastic bags and threw it in a dumpster... I didn’t see the age of the baby but wrapped in plastic it didn’t have a chance.
As to the lack of abortion drugs in her blood that rules that method of killing the baby out but in many third world cultures they have cruder methods of killing ,, in the Philippines for instance a hard massage to disrupt or detach the placenta is common... she was looking up ways to purchase abortion drugs so that showed intent...
She was bleeding profusely and in danger of dying herself but she took time out to ensure the baby was dead and hide it?? knowing that the doctor would absolutely know she had just given birth??
Infanticide is common in India , the baby is a living human being whether it took a breath or not... everything we know points to a valid conviction... if there were good defense arguments we would have her lawyer spoon feeding them to the newspaper.
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