NOW Continues Lie About Supposed Abortion Death of Becky Bell

Life News ^ | 7/27/06 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The National Organization for Women issued a statement Wednesday condemning a Senate vote to approve a measure to uphold parental involvement laws on abortion. The pro-abortion group is continuing to advance an 18 year-old discredited story that claims a teenager who didn't want to tell her parents she was pregnant died from an illegal botched abortion.

On Tuesday, the Senate cast an overwhelmingly bipartisan 65-37 vote in favor of the Child Custody Protection Act, much to NOW's chagrin.

In its statement condemning the vote, the group says the "Republican Taliban" is putting girls like Becky Bell at risk.

"[T]here are many young women who will not and cannot approach their parents with such a dilemma, and who will do as Becky Bell, the 17-year-old Indiana honor student who died because of an illegal botched abortion," NOW claims.

"She desperately did not want to disappoint her beloved parents, and ended her pregnancy the only way she could find," NOW added.

Yet, NOW is perpetuating a false story about Bell's tragic death that was discredited years ago.

When Bell died, abortion advocates dubbed Becky the "first known victim of parental consent laws," launched massive media campaign, and enlisted her parents to hit the talk show and lecture circuit to denounce parental notification and consent laws all over the country.

That received significant attention until National Right to Life got a copy of the post-mortem report, which showed no sign of either induced abortion or infection in or near the reproductive organs.

Instead, the report showed Bell died from a deadly and fast-acting form of pneumonia that had nothing to do with her pregnancy or her reproductive system. She had contracted this especially lethal form of pneumonia at about the same time that she had a miscarriage.

Various doctors have confirmed that Becky Bell did not die from an induced abortion.

The physician who personally examined Becky's body, Dr. John Pless, head of forensic pathology at Indiana University Medical Center, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper in September 1990 that "I cannot prove she had an illegal abortion. I cannot prove she had anything but a spontaneous abortion [miscarriage]."

Dr. Curtis Harris, president of the American Academy of Medical Ethics, examined the post-mortem report and consulted with four leading medical experts. Together they agreed with Pless that Bell had an incomplete miscarriage, not an abortion, and the pneumonia that killed her was unrelated to her pregnancy.

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Nearly 50 MILLION infants have been murdered since 1973, when are the feminazis going to talk about that?!

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Now the feminazis are lying aboug parental consent laws for teenagers.

[Alouette]

What about the teenage girl in Detroit who died after a legal abortion?

[wagglebee]

The way I figure it (based on the idea that approximately 50% of babies are girls), nearly 25 million females have been killed since 1973 and presumably many of them would have become mothers themselves by now.

But you're right, women die often from botched abortions, especially RU486. But ending "backalley" abortions was supposed to end all of this, of course that was a lie too.

[Hodar]

The True Becky Bell Story
Becky Bell was a 17-year old Indiana girl who reportedly died of an illegal abortion on September 16, 1988. "Pro-choice" and Feminist organizations, especially Planned Parenthood and Eleanor Smeal's "Feminist Majority Fund," immediately seized on Becky Bell's death and stated as fact that it was directly caused by Indiana's parental consent laws. They dubbed Becky the "first known victim of parental consent laws" and launched massive media campaign and enlisted her parents to hit the talk show and lecture circuit to denounce parental notification and consent laws all over the country - the law that they claimed "caused Becky's death." As Ms. Magazine put it, "She Died Because of a Law." [1]
This received a lot of media attention for awhile, until the National Right to Life Committee got a copy of the post-mortem report, which showed no sign of either induced abortion or infection in or near the reproductive organs. What the report did show was that Becky Bell died of a deadly and fast-acting form of pneumonia, similar to that which killed Muppets creator Jim Henson, which had neither originated in nor had affected the reproductive system. She had contracted this especially lethal form of pneumonia at about the same time that she had a miscarriage.
Various doctors have confirmed that Becky Bell did not die from an induced abortion. Dr. John Curry, former head of the Tissue Bank at Bethesda Naval Hospital, reviewed the coroner's pathology report. He noted that the report listed massive infection in Becky Bell's lungs and in other areas of her body, but there was no evidence of infection on the outside of her uterus or within it. He also stated that the germ that killed her was a common pneumonia germ "... which is unlikely to originate from a contaminated abortion procedure." [2]
The physician who personally examined Becky's body, Dr. John Pless, head of forensic pathology at Indiana University Medical Center, stated that "I cannot prove she had an illegal abortion. I cannot prove she had anything but a spontaneous abortion [miscarriage]." [3]

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[WV Mountain Mama]

Why would they bother to worry about that? It would interfere with the me, me, me argument they have perfected. It is their choice, their body, their life, unless they have a baby and the father doesn't want it. Then he has to be a man, take responsibility for what he did, it takes two to tango, now gimme my money.

[Coleus]

50 MILLION >>

that only accounts for surgical abortions.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thing is, now the back alley has a front office.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Treating unborn children like
MEAT
IS
MURDER

[after dark]

May Becky Bell rest in peace.

NOW should be sued for slander.

They used a dead girl to further the cause murdering babies.They fabricated a ghastly story which turned out to be huge lie.

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[Lexinom]

NOW? Lie? Nah, never!

[rzeznikj at stout]

This is in a sense saddening. But much more sick than saddening...

The pro-aborts will go to no end to further their murderous cause...

[MHGinTN]

The worshippers of bloody abortion rites have merely shown once again that they must continue lying to defend their demonic rites. Liars lie ...

[TASMANIANRED]

Abortion isn't a risk free proceedure.

I've taken care of patients with sepsis, perforated uterus, perforated bowels..and these were the legal ones.

[Lesforlife]

Well think about it.

If Norma McCorvey wasn't raped and the whole Roe v Wade
decision was based upon a lie,

what's the harm in a few more?

[Mr. Silverback]

The title of this one smacked me in the head...I was friends with (and briefly dated) a girl named Becky Bell back in my early twenties. Definitely not this girl of course, but it was spooky...

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[desherwood7]

This is part of the Feminazis "progressive" agenda for America.