Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping
Posted on 09/24/2005 2:08:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
I have written only a handful of columns that required fighting back the tears. This is one of them.
I got a call last Thursday from a colleague-in-arms asking me for help. He wanted me to write the story I am about to tell because it has been buried by a conspiratorial level of silence rooted in political and media bias.
This is the story about an incredibly loving young girl named Christin. A very active high-school graduate and a beloved member of her softball team and community, she was sweet beyond the norm as so often is the case for children with her diagnosis. She had Down syndrome. (I have heard it said, anecdotally, the extra chromosome which characterizes Trisomy 21, encodes for love. For those of you blessed enough to know anyone with Down syndrome, you will likely agree.)
There is simply something about these gifted children that reminds us all about what really matters in life no matter how busy and how complicated our lives appear. Sen. Brownback, R-Kan., made just that point last week on the third day of hearings on the nomination of Judge Roberts.
He spoke on the effects of Roe vs. Wade and on children diagnosed with a disability while still in the womb. Specifically, the records show that 80-90 percent of all children diagnosed with DS are killed. One tragedy to this statistic beyond the obvious taking of life is that waiting lists of people exist to adopt these children. These deaths are a great loss not only to the mother and family, but society as a whole. By way of example, Sen. Brownback spoke of a young man named Jimmy diagnosed with DS who operates an elevator in the Senate building.
His warm smile welcomes us every day. We're a better body for him. He told me the other day – he frequently gives me a hug in the elevator afterwards. I know he does Sen. Hatch often, too, who kindly gives him ties, some of which I question the taste of, Orrin ...(LAUGHTER)
... but he kindly gives ties.
HATCH: It doesn't have to get personal ...
(LAUGHTER)
BROWNBACK: And Jimmy said to me the other day after he hugged me; he said Shhh, don't tell my supervisor. They're telling me I'm hugging too many people.
(LAUGHTER)
BROWNBACK: And, yet, we're ennobled by him and what he does and how he lifts up our humanity and 80 to 90 percent of the kids in this country like Jimmy never get here.
What does that do to us? What does that say about us?
That means Jimmy and Christin were lucky exceptions to the general rule and trend to kill the unborn diagnosed with a disability. Sadly, Chrisitin's luck unexpectedly ran out this past year when she was not only sexually assaulted in January of this year, but remarkably became pregnant. No one seems sure of the occurrence that young women diagnosed with DS become pregnant. According to the experts I consulted, the numbers are likely too rare for an official count. One thing is sure, of those becoming pregnant, complications are likely to exist.
In Christin's case, she was taken by her family at 28 weeks pregnant to Wichita, Kan., to the infamous abortion clinic of Dr. George Tiller. At that time, a drug was administered to kill the baby and another drug to open the cervix for delivery or removal of the dead baby. After starting the procedure, which normally takes 3-4 days, Christin was sent to a local hotel to begin her labor.
Somewhat surprisingly, she returned to the clinic the next day, the abortion procedure was completed and she was once again told to return to her hotel room. Immediately her condition began to deteriorate. When she returned to the clinic, her symptoms were misdiagnosed as dehydration. She was given an IV and again sent back to her hotel where she began having episodes of vomiting and unconsciousness. She was advised to return to the clinic where she became unresponsive. By this time Christin was in serious trouble. According to one doctor who reviewed her autopsy report, she was "bleeding and oozing from every orifice of her body."
A clinic employee called 911. More worried abut the clinics image than Christin, she begged the dispatcher to turn off the lights or sirens of the ambulance. The ambulance arrived and took Christin to the emergency room at Wesley Medical Center, but it was too late. Christin died. According to the medical examiner's report, her horrifying and painful death was a direct result of the abortion. What's worse, it could have been prevented if not for the misdiagnosis and slow response of clinic staff.
I really must wonder how much she understood of what was happening to her during those painful and frightening hours and days leading to her death and the death of her baby. But without any coverage from the news, no outcry from her parents or the public, Christin is now dead. This sweet and precious little girl was sexually assaulted, her baby was killed (likely without her consent) then she herself suffered and died a brutal and painful end.
God help us for not protecting the most precious and vulnerable among us. I can only repeat the questions asked by Sen. Brownback: "What does that do to us? What does that say about us?"
This has wrongful death written all over it. No doubt the abortionists have major liability insurance though.
Didn't take long for the babykillers to surface. What you don't know and will never even care about is that abortion statistics are notoriously distorted for the benefit of credulous chumps like you.
Abortion deaths are rorutinely listed as something neutral, like septicemia. The fact that the sepsis came from a perforated uterus or a torn intestine due to the incompetence of one of your heroes, is never recorded in the records.
So are you saying that YOUR mother was crazy to take such a risk? Just curious.
According to this article, they can go to a dingy garage in Wichita Kansas for the same treatment, and maybe be killed. Guess you think that's a better deal for "our ladies."
Deliberate lies are typically frowned on here. I think you probably need to quit while you're ahead.
Many clinics are set up like assembly lines, with the abortion doctor working one day a week, and the women all scheduled for the same day. Then they push them through one by one. I don't know if that was the case at the clinic in this story, but it sure sounds like it.
Thank you for the ping... somehow I missed it earlier and see my name there now. I appreciate your giving me a head's up. This is so very very tragic and sad.
Thanks for the ping!
Yes it is. What I'm wondering about was were her parents with her? They are not mentioned in any way except making sure she had an abortion.
Pray hard for Tiller. Like the worst of the mass murderers, our prayers can have an effect. Pray for the liberation of Tiller's soul from evil.
The infants' mortality rate during abotions is 100%.
Yes, from what I have read.
Abortion IS murder!
I don't know how committed you are to your 'pro-choice' stance, as I have only your comments here and your FR profile page to go on. But I have something else for you to consider if you are willing...
If I may be so bold as to ask if it is because you feel you have no right to "judge" because you are not a woman and therefore cannot know? That is where my brother resides... in that "live and let live", "not my place to judge what others should do" world. But my brother is one of a lessening crowd... more and more people are realizing exactly what our elected officials are holding so dear through every election, every appointment and nomination. The right for every and any woman and girl to kill her child without consequence.
You write it is a woman's body, so her choice. But part of her body, when she is pregnant, belongs to another person. Different DNA, if you are coming at this from a scientific view.
If abortion is outlawed - which is to say, not only is Roe v Wade overturned but each and every one of our 50 states makes abortion illegal ALSO (as Roe v Wade does NOT ban abortion outright as MSM would have us believe), do you not think that perhaps men and women would think twice before jumping into bed with people? If they did not have such an easy fix for their neglected duties in personal responsibility, would they so hastily consent to lie with anyone? The majority of abortions are performed for the mother's "mental health" = #1 reason given that wasn't written down: "I'm not ready."
When immoral things are legal - does that make them right? Of course not. That abortion is legal makes it no more moral than slavery. It only means that people can feel better about themselves for committing willful murder. Women are told "it's only a blob of tissue", "it isn't a baby yet" etc. A fetal heart starts beating at 22 days, or 3 weeks after conception. Most women do not even know they are pregnant yet. But that 2nd heart beating in their bodies isn't theirs. It belongs to another life. Should it be legal for someone to end that life because they "don't feel like it right now"? That bumpersticker we've all seen "Abortion stops a beating heart" isn't just something Pro-Lifers tout as a cute phrase. It is a scientific fact. And if you prefer to look at this from another perspective, perhaps I can let someone closer to God than I speak:
"Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral "indication" that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit. "
~ Allocution to Italian midwives Pope Pius XII October 29, 1951
As always, you're very welcome. :)
What? Did I miss your data on natural childbirth -where is it? Furyther what about "unatural" childbirth -where is that info?
If you are going to advovcate for abortion why play games -killing human beings intentionally is far far different than realizing death by accident or unintended consequence...
"Pray for the liberation of Tiller's soul from evil."
When I think about him, I don't feel fit to talk to God.
But then, I never was, so...
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