Posted on 09/24/2005 2:08:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
Truly unfortunate. Hopefully those responsible will pay for their apparent malpractice, but I think the family of this woman could have ensured a different outcome. Why didn't they terminate this pregnancy sooner? She was sexually assulted and became pregnant and they apparently did nothing? Then they decide to act, 7 months into the pregnancy! What idiots!
Spare me your hand wringing and anguish.
There's no politics that can make this any more or less horrible. There are no euphamisms that take away what has happened here. There's no PC way to handle this. This is a dire human tragedy, and it happened because there are sick dogmas (some call them world-views) of death that have shaped the attitudes of millions, so that this story not only gets stuffed, but that it even happens.
later read/ping.
I just don't know where to start.
Can someone explain this to me: Is the author implying that this third-trimester abortion was deemed medically necessary because of "complications"? Am I misreading this?
One thing is sure, of those [Down syndrome patients] 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....
It was the 28 weeks that got to me too. Some premies are born at 28 weeks and make it. Nowhere does it say that the baby had DS. I find that interesting. If the parents were so gung ho on abortion for their daughter why did they wait until the baby was 3/4 grown? Now they have no daughter and no grandchild.
You have a thought there ... if they could destroy the breast implant industry using phony medical claims, why not destroy the abortion industry using the real examples of deaths.
This is a direct consequence of abortion mills using their muscle to escape the same kinds of regulations every other hospital and clinic has to go under.
show us the data on late-term abortion mortality rate, not the phony abortion-mill talking points.
How many women die each year as this woman did, in consequences due to abortions? What's that number?
Baby is in heaven.
This little girl was taken to this abortuary...
...She was forced.
Typical reaction. I expected no less.
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.
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.
She was raped, she quite possibly was unaware of her condition and it is probable that she was unaware of the abortion procedure.
If she should burn in hell for this, please explain your logic.
Ping
since when is it legal to abort at 28 weeks?
April 27 2005
A recent addition to the FreeRepublic family, and here you are, sputtering...
>Mom is burning in hell.<
It wasn't her choice.
By the way, has anyone told you that you are a horse's butt?
ProLife/AntiAbortion Ping!
"Tiller the Killer"s lethal klinik claims another pair of victims.
If Herr Hitllery engineers an '08 win, this and worse will be commonplace...but we'll never hear about it through the collusive SlimeStreamMedia.
Run, Hillary, Run! {My foot is on the gas pedal, and my brakes are shot!}
AmericanArchConservative
Because sometimes Goldwater was a wuss.
Link?
The truth is, we cannot know for certain what the rates of post-abortive maternal mortality are. The deaths are almost always reported as "massive infection," and abortion is seldom listed as a secondary cause.
Since Roe vs. Wade.
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