Family of Detroit Girl Who Died From Abortion Speaks Out

LifeNews.com ^ | 04/09/04 | Paul Nowak

[WildReeling]

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- At a press conference outside the WomanCare of Southfield abortion facility, Nicole Redden told reporters about her 15-year-old cousin's death that followed a late-term abortion there.

"This stuff needs to stop," said Redden. "People need to take a first hand look at what happens here."

Redden said the abortion business acted out of interest in "money and greed" when they performed an abortion on her cousin, Tamia Russell, who was six months pregnant.

Taisha Glenn, the sister of Russell's 24-year-old boyfriend, Stacy Glenn, had taken Russell to the abortion facility on January 7 without permission or notifying Russell's mother or guardian.

"A woman off the street took her in," said Redden. "She had no parental authority."

Glenn and Russell went to five other abortion facilities before coming to WomanCare. The other abortion businesses turned them away because Russell was too far along in her pregnancy, Redden said.

"They literally went shopping," Redden told reporters. "One even offered prenatal care and vitamins."

Redden said that Tamia used an identification card with another woman's picture to state she was 19, as abortions cannot be performed on minors in Michigan without parental consent.

According to Redden, the woman in the picture ID looked nothing like Russell -- but the abortion was done anyway.

The facility vaginally inserted laminaria, a seaweed used to begin dilation. Russell was sent home, where she confessed to her family that she was pregnant and had begun the abortion procedure.

When her mother and aunt called WomanCare, they said the abortion could not be stopped once the laminaria is inserted.

However, according to eMedicine Journal, though there are some medical risks, "pregnancies have safely been carried to term after laminaria insertion and removal." In fact, many crisis pregnancy centers offer laminaria removal for women who have changed their minds after beginning an abortion procedure.

Russell's mother drove her daughter to the abortion facility the next day to finish the abortion, which was performed by Alberto Hodari. Upon her return home, she experienced severe bleeding -- "so much so she soaked an entire mattress," Redden told LifeNews.com.

WomanCare told her family that such bleeding was "normal" following an abortion, and not to take her to the hospital.

[cpforlife.org]

PING

[tutstar]

"This stuff needs to stop"

and to that I say

AMEN!

[GadareneDemoniac]

What makes you think they don't realize it? If they can destroy the institution of the family, they can control the fragmented/demoralized people...

[wagglebee]

Tamia used an identification card with another woman's picture to state she was 19, as abortions cannot be performed on minors in Michigan without parental consent.

The libs will say it was her fault for lying about her age and the "narrowminded" pro-lifers who think a 15 year old should need parental consent before she murders a baby.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The law is an ass.

[Copernicus]

Remember one reason to legalize abortion was so "women would no longer be subject to the medieval horrors of unsanitary and dangerous coat hanger wire procedures and unskilled practitioners"!

Best regards,

[Victoria Delsoul]

Blaming abortion clinics as the sole culprit in cases like these isn't right either. This girl wouldn't have stopped searching till she found a way to abort her baby. This goes deeper than just abortion per se, rather it is a social problem where ignorance plays a role compounded by a lack of morals and a disregard for life.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Russell's mother drove her daughter to the abortion facility the next day to finish the abortion,

Mummie Dearest is not blameless. My sympathy is limited.

[Flora McDonald]

And on April 25th, 2004, the people who have fought so long and hard for infanticide in the name of abortion will be parading through the streets of our Nation's Capitol, celebrating the carnage they have wrought.

This whole issue of abortion has brought humiliating shame on our country.

[mickie]

"Everyone involved in this should be sued for all they're worth --- including the boyfriend and his sister"

This sob should be arrested for statutory rape.

[cookcounty]

So are these people being prosecuted?

[cpforlife.org]

Excellent points Victoria. Thanks.

[Pylon]

Is the abortion clinic which killed this girl and her infant still open for business?

Probably, and I'm sure John Kerry, the good Catholic, will stop by to offer his support for the clinic during their rough time. Will that visit be before or after Mass?

[prolife101]

In the comments posted on this article it didn't appear as if anyone noticed that the abortion clinic was in the process of covering up a crime when this girl got killed.

A more accurate take on this story is the one that is posted on www.ProlifeAmerica.com - namely:

"Sexual predator's victim dies when an abortion clinic tries to kill her baby
Abortion clinic kills 15 year-old girl trying to help molester cover-up his crime
- Editorial Note: Planned Parenthood protects sexual predators' right to privacy"

Visit ChildPredators.com if you'd like proof of how abortion clinics are profiting by helping to conceal the crimes of sexual predators who prey on underage girls.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Who in their right mind thinks it is okay for their 15 y.o. daughter to date a 24 y.o. man?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. A third of pregnancies among black women end in abortion.