Posted on 08/07/2002 7:01:26 AM PDT by victim soul
Edited on 08/07/2002 8:51:39 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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."
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.
"I think it was out of spite and hatred," he said.
Wonder what the spite and hatred was all about...
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!
I noticed that too. And then the next sentence.
Guess what? I'm entitled to an opinion--even if I'm a man. Get used to it.
On this thread it stands for EagleBeak. :-}
And how many miscarriages have you had?
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*
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.
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.
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