Pa. woman miscarries after judge granted permission for abortion

Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | 8.7.02 | MARIE MCCULLOUGH

[victim soul]

KINGSTON, Pa. - (KRT) - Tanya Meyers miscarried just hours after a Pennsylvania judge gave her permission to proceed with an abortion that her former boyfriend tried to stop.

Meyers' mother, Tracey Curry, said Tuesday that her daughter began bleeding heavily Monday evening and was taken to a Wilkes Barre, Pa.-area hospital, where she was recovering Tuesday. An ultrasound confirmed that she had lost the 10-week pregnancy, Curry said.

"Tanya is a strong person, but this has taken a toll on her," Curry said by phone from her Kingston home. "It's taken a toll on her whole family."

[realwoman]

See my post #138

[TankerKC]

They've never been there." And you haven't.

P.S. You know nothing about where I've been and what I do or do not regret. NOTHING! You presume to know me based on a few posts that you did not understand correctly.

[katherineisgreat]

I never called you self righteous,I said that the libs think of people who are hard on women who have abortions as the type.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Stachokus said he had been Meyers' boyfriend for 11 months, but after an argument, she wanted to have the abortion.

"I think it was out of spite and hatred," he said.

Wonder what the spite and hatred was all about...

[realwoman]

Orders of protection are signed off by judges under an oath of perjury...

You are TTTOOOOOO funny! I suggest you go sit in family court for a week or so, then come back and we'll talk! BTW, what law school did you go to? Maybe we know each other!

[katherineisgreat]

you're a guy. you haven't been pregnant. Mom's telling me to go to bed. more later...

[eaglebeak]

Wonder what the spite and hatred was all about...

I noticed that too. And then the next sentence.

[eaglebeak]

Who or what is EB?

[TankerKC]

you're a guy. you haven't been pregnant. Mom's telling me to go to bed. more later...

Guess what? I'm entitled to an opinion--even if I'm a man. Get used to it.

[jwalsh07]

Well, in Groton,CT it stands for Electric Boat.

On this thread it stands for EagleBeak. :-}

[eaglebeak]

Sorry. I forget about my screen name sometimes. I don't post here too often.

[victim soul]

I thought I heard him say on O'Reilly that someone from Philadelphia called him after reading it in Wilkes Barre press.

[victim soul]

You are making some big assumptions about motives and timing.
I would still be doing anything to save my child -- even appearing on Phil Donahue if necessary.

This young father has done a lot to reveal the inequities and evil of allowing a mother to have the right to kill her child for any reason and at any time.

And it never ceases to amaze me that the radical feminists
and abortionists' only solution to a broken relationship is killing another human being. Have they ever heard of reconciliation??

Say a prayer for her two year old. Her "unwanted" child is in the Hands of God.

[Under the Radar]

You are making all women look bad. Can you at least attempt to step back from your own self-obsession to read the article? If replying to this thread is predicated on how many miscarriages one has had, perhaps someone should post a warning. Thankfully, some women, although fewer than should be hoped, can actually step back from the narrow filter of their own experiences to react to the world somewhat objectively.

[victim soul]

How's this for a headline??

Abortion Case Winner Loses Her Baby

http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-253992.html

[Catspaw]

Why am I making all women look bad?

And how many miscarriages have you had?

[Under the Radar]

Guess what? I'm entitled to an opinion--even if I'm a man. Get used to it.

Golly, no, don't you know that only a woman can speak to women's issues? In fact, on this thread, only those with the requisite number of miscarriages may express an opinion. *rolls her eyes*

[Catspaw]

I would still be doing anything to save my child -- even appearing on Phil Donahue if necessary.

But after she lost the baby, he went on a veritable media blitz.  Besides appearing on O'Reilly, he was interviewed extensively by three local papers:

The Scranton Times:

Miscarriage ends abortion debate

The Wilkes-Barre Citizen Voice:

Stachokus 'heartbroken' over loss of unborn child

The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader:

Father still considering challenging abortion ruling

I'm sure I can find more--and I haven't checked with the local TV websites or other newspapers in the area.  But it does seem like he spent considerable  time giving interviews to the media yesterday.

Say a prayer for her two year old. Her "unwanted" child is in the Hands of God.

From the interview I saw on O'Reilly, he said, in essence, that he had acted like a father to the child and that the child called him "Daddy."  Expect a petition to the court with Stachokus requesting custody of the child, or at least visitation, in addition to the lawsuit I expect him to file because he's "emotionally scarred" over this ordeal.  Stachokus isn't done litigating with her yet.  In fact, I expect him to be in litigation with him for years to come.

[Under the Radar]

You make us look bad by displaying the stereotypical behavior of illogical reasoning and self-obsession. By pretending that you are the gatekeeper of who may comment on this sad and ironic situation based upon the number of miscarriages the poster has had, for example. By refusing to see the situation outside of how it is reflected through the prism of your experiences.

I have had zero, zip, not a one, not a single miscarriage.

And since you think that this somehow qualifies or fails to qualify me to comment on something that involved a miscarriage, I infer that you also think that I cannot comment on anything that affects men, or Blacks, or people who were born before 1971, or people from another country, or people who like mangoes, or people who listen to Enya.

In other words, your reasoning is perfect for a liberal. It is below the standards of conservative reasoning, however, and I suggest that you do some remdial study.

[Catspaw]

Oh, the "liberal" smear--that's the fallback position.

But when a man wants to compel a woman to get an abortion--and you know NARAL's beating the bushes for one as a companion case to this one as it wends its merry way through the courts to dump in the lap of the Supreme Court--and gets an activist judge to order her to do so, based on this ruling, what are you going to do? Say that if the man has the right to compel a woman to carry the child to term, he also has the right to compel a woman to have an abortion? I doubt it. You'll say it's fine with you that an activist judge can compel a woman to carry the baby to term, but you'll condemn an activist judge who compels a woman to have an abortion. The courts are going to say that those positions are inconsistent: that if a man has the right to compel a woman to carry a baby to term, he also has the right to compel a woman to terminate the pregnancy. However, in this case, the existing case law (Roe, Casey) means that if this guy takes this case to the court of appeals, he'll lose. It'll be another case that NARAL can wave around, citing it as "another victory for reproductive rights." Is that what you really want?

This is not a matter for the courts. It's a matter for the legislatures and Congress. Get a law passed that gives a man veto power over an abortion and then we'll talk about the ramifications during the legal challenge.