Barack Obama Statement: Reduce Abortions by Honoring Pro-Abortion Decision
To nobody's surprise, Obama took time on the anniversary of Roe vs Wade to celebrate in the name of "freedom of choice" the deaths of 50 million babies. Obama lauded the Roe decision as one that " not only protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: That government should not intrude on our most private family matters.”
1. How can you justify killing a child in the name of the mother's "health"? How can you justify messing with a healthy, natural process by means of sharp instruments and harsh chemicals in the name of "health"?
2. Calling abortion "reproductive freedom" is as much a misnomer as calling the gas chamber a "respiratory care center".
3. And if killing your child is a "most private family matter", then we owe John List a big apology, and ought to stop persecuting Caylee Anthony's mother.
So, one of his first acts as POTUS was to drive home that he wants prolifers to join him in celebrating abortion as a good, a right, a just practice.
Not in this or any other lifetime, Mr. Obama. Might I remind you of what you claim is a favorite Scripture -- albeit one you've evidently never actually read, studied, or thought about. Matthew 25. To be specific, Matthew 25:40:
"'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'"
Every child torn to bits with your blessing, Mr. Obama, is one you're going to be called on the carpet for when you meet your Maker. And though Jesus will be standing with you, we won't.
Yeah, we'll have our own sins we'll be accountable for. And we see no reason to add the blood of tens of millions of innocent children to the tally. You're more than welcome to shoulder that burden in the name of "reproductive freedom".
You might also, if you're the Christian you claim to be, re-think your "babies as punishment" paradigm in the light of the Scriptures:
Psalm 127:3 "Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him."
Babies aren't punishment. We're not going to join you in celebrating their destruction as a "freedom". Period. Paragraph.
Any questions?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A very unusual abortion death
On January 22, 1980, Vanessa Preston, the 22-year-old wife of a local minister, went with her husband and small son to Fairmount Clinic in Dallas. There, National Abortion Federation member Curtis Boyd performed a safe, legal dilaton and extraction abortion on her. During the abortion, Vanessa went into a grand mal siezure and then into cardiac arrest.
To the credit of Boyd and the Fairmount staff, emergency procedures were immediately instituted. An ambulance was summoned, and Boyd and a nurse performed CPR and got Vanessa's heart to beat again.
Before the ambulance arrived, Vanessa again went into cardiac arrest. Again, staff at Fairmount performed CPR. Paramedics and staff stabilized Vanessa for transport to the hospital.
About 40 minutes into exploratory surgery, trying to address a retained placenta and multiple vaginal punctures, Vanessa again went into cardiac arrest. She was given a total of 24 units of blood to try to keep her circulation entact despite her massive, unstoppable blood loss. For an hour and a half, hospital staff tried in vain to resuscitate Vanessa before finally pronouncing her dead.
An autopsy revealed that she had developed amniotic fluid embolism (AFE - amniotic fluid in the mother's bloodstream) and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC - a blood clotting disorder) during the abortion. This is what caused her cardiac arrest. When Boyd's staff resuscitated Vanessa, they caused a small laceration of her liver. This is typical in even properly performed CPR, and is not usually life-threatening. However, because of the DIC, Vanessa's blood couldn't clot, and she bled to death from the liver laceration. Since second-trimester evacuation abortions were still new (read "experimental") at the time, Boyd and his staff didn't realize that there was a risk of DIC.
Boyd, to his credit, reported Vanessa's death to the Centers for Disease Control. He also wrote a medical journal article about her death, warning other abortionists that DIC could occur during second-trimester evacuation abortions.
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To the credit of Boyd and the Fairmount staff, emergency procedures were immediately instituted. An ambulance was summoned, and Boyd and a nurse performed CPR and got Vanessa's heart to beat again.
Before the ambulance arrived, Vanessa again went into cardiac arrest. Again, staff at Fairmount performed CPR. Paramedics and staff stabilized Vanessa for transport to the hospital.
About 40 minutes into exploratory surgery, trying to address a retained placenta and multiple vaginal punctures, Vanessa again went into cardiac arrest. She was given a total of 24 units of blood to try to keep her circulation entact despite her massive, unstoppable blood loss. For an hour and a half, hospital staff tried in vain to resuscitate Vanessa before finally pronouncing her dead.
An autopsy revealed that she had developed amniotic fluid embolism (AFE - amniotic fluid in the mother's bloodstream) and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC - a blood clotting disorder) during the abortion. This is what caused her cardiac arrest. When Boyd's staff resuscitated Vanessa, they caused a small laceration of her liver. This is typical in even properly performed CPR, and is not usually life-threatening. However, because of the DIC, Vanessa's blood couldn't clot, and she bled to death from the liver laceration. Since second-trimester evacuation abortions were still new (read "experimental") at the time, Boyd and his staff didn't realize that there was a risk of DIC.
Boyd, to his credit, reported Vanessa's death to the Centers for Disease Control. He also wrote a medical journal article about her death, warning other abortionists that DIC could occur during second-trimester evacuation abortions.
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A year to the day before Roe
A year to the day before Roe vs. Wade, 26-year-old Kathryn Strong died at Civic Center Hospital in Oakland, California, of hemorrhage and shock from an abortion performed the day before. She left a three-year-old son motherless.
Though her abortion predated Roe by a year, it wasn't the back-alley kind Roe was heralded as eliminating. It was one of the safe and legal kind we were assured would usher in a new era of happy families, wanted children living free from abuse, and women who need never fear that their abortionist would also be their killer.
But as you can see from the graph below, legalization only changed what kind of abortions women died from. It didn't do anything to change the existing trend toward reduced maternal mortality:
Legalized abortion doesn't protect women from death. It protects abortionists from prosecution.
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Though her abortion predated Roe by a year, it wasn't the back-alley kind Roe was heralded as eliminating. It was one of the safe and legal kind we were assured would usher in a new era of happy families, wanted children living free from abuse, and women who need never fear that their abortionist would also be their killer.
But as you can see from the graph below, legalization only changed what kind of abortions women died from. It didn't do anything to change the existing trend toward reduced maternal mortality:
Legalized abortion doesn't protect women from death. It protects abortionists from prosecution.
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1900: Physician/Midwife abortion proves fatal
On January 22, 1900, Mrs. Barbara Shelgren, age 25, died at Augustana Hospital in Chicago of an abortion performed there that day. Paulina Bechtel, identified as a midwife, was arrested and held by Coroner's Jury and indicted of homicide by a grand jury, but the case was thrown out by Judge Holdom.
Bechtel was also implicated in the abortion death of Ida Henry in 1900, but was identified as a physician in that case. According to Leslie Reagan, author of When Abortion Was a Crime, it was common for female physicians to be misidentified as midwives. Therefore I am going to assume that Bechtel was indeed a doctor.
This would make Barbara's abortion typical of pre-legalization abortions.
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Bechtel was also implicated in the abortion death of Ida Henry in 1900, but was identified as a physician in that case. According to Leslie Reagan, author of When Abortion Was a Crime, it was common for female physicians to be misidentified as midwives. Therefore I am going to assume that Bechtel was indeed a doctor.
This would make Barbara's abortion typical of pre-legalization abortions.
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Notorious Chicago abortionist of the early 20th Century
On January 22, 1925, 17-year-old Jean Cohen died at Chicago's Montrose Hospital from an abortion performed earlier that day. On January 31, Louise Hagenow was arrested in Jean's death. However, Hagenow, though a known abortionist, was cleared in Jean's death -- though sources are not clear why.
There were a number of deaths in Chicago attributed to either a Lucy Hagenow or a Louise Hagenow. These are the same woman, a physician/midwife who also called herself Ida Von Schultz. The deaths include:
1899: Marie Hecht
1906: Lola Madison
1907: Annie Horvatich
1925: Lottie Lowy, Nina H. Pierce, Bridget Masterson, and Elizabeth Welter
1926: Mary Moorehead
Hagenow was typical of criminal abortionists in that she was a physician.
Prochoicers would do well to remember that today's "professional provider of vital reproductive health care services" was yesterday's "back alley butcher". Pen on paper changed nothing about the kind of person who is attracted to abortion as a profession.
Prolifers would do well to remember how hard it can be to pin abortion quacks down and keep them locked up.
As long as the idea persists that women and their children are mortal enemies, women and children will continue to die from abortions.
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There were a number of deaths in Chicago attributed to either a Lucy Hagenow or a Louise Hagenow. These are the same woman, a physician/midwife who also called herself Ida Von Schultz. The deaths include:
Hagenow was typical of criminal abortionists in that she was a physician.
Prochoicers would do well to remember that today's "professional provider of vital reproductive health care services" was yesterday's "back alley butcher". Pen on paper changed nothing about the kind of person who is attracted to abortion as a profession.
Prolifers would do well to remember how hard it can be to pin abortion quacks down and keep them locked up.
As long as the idea persists that women and their children are mortal enemies, women and children will continue to die from abortions.
For more on pre-legalization abortion, see The Bad Old Days of Abortion
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Zing! Ad nails it!
Given the reality, I think somebody owes 45 million people an apology. But of course, they can't accept the apology, being dead.
1961: Attempt to hide the body fails for back alley abortionist
On January 21, 1961, Dr. Mandel M. Friedman contacted a Queens undertaker, asking him to arrange burial for 23-year-old Vivian Grant of New York. Friedman told the undertaker that Vivian had died of a heart ailment.
The undertaker notified authorities, who determined that although Vivian had not been pregnant, Friedman had attempted to perform an abortion on her, causing her death.
Friedman was charged with homicide and falsifying a death certificate.
Vivian's abortion was typical in that it was performed by a doctor, as was the case with perhaps 90% of criminal abortions.
Friedman resurfaced late the following year. He was charged with homicide in the September 11, 1962 death of Barbara C. Covington, age 35, a Florida socialite.
When, God willing, we restore protection from abortion, we need to keep in mind how quacks like Friedman managed to get free to kill again, and head them off at the pass.
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The undertaker notified authorities, who determined that although Vivian had not been pregnant, Friedman had attempted to perform an abortion on her, causing her death.
Friedman was charged with homicide and falsifying a death certificate.
Vivian's abortion was typical in that it was performed by a doctor, as was the case with perhaps 90% of criminal abortions.
Friedman resurfaced late the following year. He was charged with homicide in the September 11, 1962 death of Barbara C. Covington, age 35, a Florida socialite.
When, God willing, we restore protection from abortion, we need to keep in mind how quacks like Friedman managed to get free to kill again, and head them off at the pass.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
1846: Kept in a brothel during fatal abortion
Mary Ackerly of White Plains, New York, was the uneducated daughter of a poor family. So it was only natural that she would be won by the charms of Harry Nelson, "a person of considerable wealth and influence" who lived near Sing Sing.
When she was "in an advanced state of pregnancy, Mary was taken to New York, where board was provided for her in a house of ill fame", according to her deathbed statement. There, Nelson brought Dr. Shove to her room at night. Then "one of them blew out the light while the other proceeded against her will, to perform the operation", which led to the expulsion of a dead baby a day or two later.
Mary sickened, and died on January 20, 1846.
Shove was described as "a rather small man," in his early 30s, who had "heretofore stood high in the estimation of his acquaintances." He was from Ossinging, which is near Sing Sing.
Mary's mother and a girl who lived at her house with her both testified. Evidence was presented that Shove was at the brothel at the time of the abortion. He in turn implicated Nelson.
Shove was indicted for Mary's death.
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When she was "in an advanced state of pregnancy, Mary was taken to New York, where board was provided for her in a house of ill fame", according to her deathbed statement. There, Nelson brought Dr. Shove to her room at night. Then "one of them blew out the light while the other proceeded against her will, to perform the operation", which led to the expulsion of a dead baby a day or two later.
Mary sickened, and died on January 20, 1846.
Shove was described as "a rather small man," in his early 30s, who had "heretofore stood high in the estimation of his acquaintances." He was from Ossinging, which is near Sing Sing.
Mary's mother and a girl who lived at her house with her both testified. Evidence was presented that Shove was at the brothel at the time of the abortion. He in turn implicated Nelson.
Shove was indicted for Mary's death.
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1974: New Years abortion proves fatal for young mother
The survivors of 21-year-old Linda Fondren sued after her death. Linda had a safe and legal abortion performed by Mohammad Pourtabib at Pre-Birth in Chicago on New Years Day, 1974. She suffered bleeding, but Pourtabib did not provide follow-up care.
Linda was taken by ambulance to Michael Reese Hospital, in shock and needing emergency care. They would not admit her, but instead sent her to Cook County Hospital, where doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy.
Linda remained hospitalized at Cook County. On January 16, doctors tried to drain fluids from Linda's chest and inadvertently punctured her spleen.
Linda died on January 20 from "hemoperitoneum with splenic rupture following hysterectomy and earlier dilatation and curettage." She left behind a small child.
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Linda was taken by ambulance to Michael Reese Hospital, in shock and needing emergency care. They would not admit her, but instead sent her to Cook County Hospital, where doctors performed an emergency hysterectomy.
Linda remained hospitalized at Cook County. On January 16, doctors tried to drain fluids from Linda's chest and inadvertently punctured her spleen.
Linda died on January 20 from "hemoperitoneum with splenic rupture following hysterectomy and earlier dilatation and curettage." She left behind a small child.
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1971: Safe and legal abortion leaves six kids motherless
"Andrea" was 26 years old when she underwent a safe, legal abortion at a New York City abortion facility on January 12, 1971.
After her abortion, Andrea contracted an infection. Her system was unable to fight the infection, and she died on January 20, 1971, leaving behind six children.
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After her abortion, Andrea contracted an infection. Her system was unable to fight the infection, and she died on January 20, 1971, leaving behind six children.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Hell Freezes Over!
Although ordinary prochoice citizens are typically appalled by coerced or forced abortions, it's a very rare thing indeed to hear prochoice activists or politicians so much as acknowledge the problem, much less speak against it. But refreshingly, Felice Gaer, director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights and chairwoman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, spoke out against forced contraception and abortion in China.
This marks the third time I've encountered prochoice opposition to forced or coerced abortion in China -- Betsy Hartman's opposition to all coercive population control in her excellent book, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs; Hillary Clinton in a speech fairly recently; and now Ms. Gaer.
The outspoken moments are coming closer together. Let's hope and pray that they become more frequent and more powerful, and that they break the taboo gainst admitting to anything amiss with modern legal abortion practice anywhere in the world.
This marks the third time I've encountered prochoice opposition to forced or coerced abortion in China -- Betsy Hartman's opposition to all coercive population control in her excellent book, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs; Hillary Clinton in a speech fairly recently; and now Ms. Gaer.
The outspoken moments are coming closer together. Let's hope and pray that they become more frequent and more powerful, and that they break the taboo gainst admitting to anything amiss with modern legal abortion practice anywhere in the world.
1993: Not so safe and legal after all
Like the deaths of Jacqueline Smith and Barbara Lofrumento, the story of Angela Sanchez involves illegal abortion and attempts to hide the body. The difference is that Alicia Hannah's abortion clinic was operating openly and apparently legally.
On January 19, 1993, Angela Neito Sanchez, age 27, went to Clinica Feminina de la Comunidad with two of her four children: 12-year-old Maria, and 2-year-old Victor. Angela's family is adamant that Angela wasn't seeking an abortion. They said that she was excited about the pregnancy and was hoping it would be a girl so Maria would have a sister. Angela's sister Celia said that someone from the facility had called Angela, telling her to come in for a consultation about the pregnancy.
Maria and Victor waited for their mother in the lobby. A clinic staffer approached Maria and suggested that she take the car and drive Victor home. Maria protested that she was too young to drive. The children continued to wait for their mother.
At around noon, a staffer took the children to lunch. When they returned to the clinic, Angela's car was gone, and Maria was told that her mother had gone to another clinic. The children continued to wait, but when their mother failed to appear Maria finally called her uncle, Hemiberto Sanchez, who took them home with him.
By 10:00, Angela's family was frantic, and Celia took Maria to the clinic to look for the missing woman. When they arrived, they saw Angela's car. Maria jumped out of her aunt's pickup truck and ran to the car. There she saw her mother lying on the ground.
Maria asked two women from the clinic, who were standing nearby, what had happened to her mother, and they told her, "She's dead." Sobbing, Maria clung to and kissed her mother while the two women from the clinic told Celia that a man had shoved Angela from a car and they were picking her up. One of the women, Alicia Ruiz Hanna, who operated the facility, told Maria that her mother had just come knocking on the door, then collapsed.
Celia put her sister's body in the back of her truck and flagged down a policeman, who led her and Maria to a hospital. There, Celia was told that her sister had been dead for several hours.
After a prolonged investigation, and Hanna's jailhouse conversion to Christianity, the full story finally emerged. Hanna, who had been passing herself off as a doctor and performing abortions at the facility, had given Angela an injection to induce abortion. Angela stopped breathing, and staffers attempted to revive her but did not summon paramedics because Hanna feared that she would go to jail and lose her children if it was discovered that she was running the clinic illegally. She and the other woman had planned to put Angela's stiffening body into the trunk of her own car and abandon the vehicle at a distant location.
In December 1994, Hanna was convicted of second-degree murder for Angela's death. She was sentenced to 16 years to life.
On January 19, 1993, Angela Neito Sanchez, age 27, went to Clinica Feminina de la Comunidad with two of her four children: 12-year-old Maria, and 2-year-old Victor. Angela's family is adamant that Angela wasn't seeking an abortion. They said that she was excited about the pregnancy and was hoping it would be a girl so Maria would have a sister. Angela's sister Celia said that someone from the facility had called Angela, telling her to come in for a consultation about the pregnancy.
Maria and Victor waited for their mother in the lobby. A clinic staffer approached Maria and suggested that she take the car and drive Victor home. Maria protested that she was too young to drive. The children continued to wait for their mother.
At around noon, a staffer took the children to lunch. When they returned to the clinic, Angela's car was gone, and Maria was told that her mother had gone to another clinic. The children continued to wait, but when their mother failed to appear Maria finally called her uncle, Hemiberto Sanchez, who took them home with him.
By 10:00, Angela's family was frantic, and Celia took Maria to the clinic to look for the missing woman. When they arrived, they saw Angela's car. Maria jumped out of her aunt's pickup truck and ran to the car. There she saw her mother lying on the ground.
Maria asked two women from the clinic, who were standing nearby, what had happened to her mother, and they told her, "She's dead." Sobbing, Maria clung to and kissed her mother while the two women from the clinic told Celia that a man had shoved Angela from a car and they were picking her up. One of the women, Alicia Ruiz Hanna, who operated the facility, told Maria that her mother had just come knocking on the door, then collapsed.
Celia put her sister's body in the back of her truck and flagged down a policeman, who led her and Maria to a hospital. There, Celia was told that her sister had been dead for several hours.
After a prolonged investigation, and Hanna's jailhouse conversion to Christianity, the full story finally emerged. Hanna, who had been passing herself off as a doctor and performing abortions at the facility, had given Angela an injection to induce abortion. Angela stopped breathing, and staffers attempted to revive her but did not summon paramedics because Hanna feared that she would go to jail and lose her children if it was discovered that she was running the clinic illegally. She and the other woman had planned to put Angela's stiffening body into the trunk of her own car and abandon the vehicle at a distant location.
In December 1994, Hanna was convicted of second-degree murder for Angela's death. She was sentenced to 16 years to life.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
New policy: Annoying comments nuked
It used to be I took a "free speech" stand and had to have a really good reason to nuke comments. But I'm switching to an "It's my blog, and if you don't like it, fark off" policy. I will have a kneejerk nuke policy. Annoy me, and your words go to the Great S**tin the Sky, where they belong.
This will include:
1. Gratuitous insults of anybody.
2. Vapidity.
3. Just being any grade of annoying twerp.
I'm tired of taking great care in not squealcing debate. If you don't contribute anything worth saying, I'm nuking it. This is not the place to demonstrate why you don't have any friends in meatspace.
This will include:
1. Gratuitous insults of anybody.
2. Vapidity.
3. Just being any grade of annoying twerp.
I'm tired of taking great care in not squealcing debate. If you don't contribute anything worth saying, I'm nuking it. This is not the place to demonstrate why you don't have any friends in meatspace.
What just a bit of awareness and care can do
It started with a rock band. It spread to sports teams. Now the Federal government. And they're shooting to get state goverments involved: Give leftover food to the hungry instead of throwing it out.
So simple. No skin off anybody's teeth. But I bet it makes a difference. Wouldn't you rather have food that was prepared for a rock star's dinner, that he didn't feel like eating and gave to you instead, rather than standard soup kitchen food?
And it's great that the food isn't being wasted any more.
Kudos. And pass it along in your own workplace if you ever have leftover food that would otherwise be thrown away.
So simple. No skin off anybody's teeth. But I bet it makes a difference. Wouldn't you rather have food that was prepared for a rock star's dinner, that he didn't feel like eating and gave to you instead, rather than standard soup kitchen food?
And it's great that the food isn't being wasted any more.
Kudos. And pass it along in your own workplace if you ever have leftover food that would otherwise be thrown away.
Death needs verification
On January 18, 1988, Angela Reynolds, age 23, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey from septic shock that she got following an 8-week abortion.
Life Dynamics lists Angela on their Tombstone Project poster. They do not indicate how they determined that Angela's death was due to an induced abortion and not a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage). Thus, I don't include Angela in the Cemetery of Choice, since I can't verify that the abortion was induced.
Life Dynamics lists Angela on their Tombstone Project poster. They do not indicate how they determined that Angela's death was due to an induced abortion and not a spontaneous abortion (miscarriage). Thus, I don't include Angela in the Cemetery of Choice, since I can't verify that the abortion was induced.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Brought a tear to my eye. Thank you, President Bush
George Bush & The Least Of These
The side of this President that the MSM and the Left daily pray to their gods that you never see.
The side of this President that the MSM and the Left daily pray to their gods that you never see.
Not as pervy as it sounds
I was reading an article at Cracked.com, with some embedded clips from McGyver. My daughter could hear them from across the room. This one nearly knocked her out of her chair. Read the dialogue first, then watch the clip. Or just listen to the clip with your eyes closed:
NUBILE YOUNG WOMAN: Why are you taking your pants off?
MacGYVER: You got a better idea?
NUBILE YOUNG WOMAN: I'm still trying to figure out what yours is.
MacGYVER: (Grunts) Come here. Grab this.
NUBILE YOUNG WOMAN: Uuhhhh!
NUBILE YOUNG WOMAN: Why are you taking your pants off?
MacGYVER: You got a better idea?
NUBILE YOUNG WOMAN: I'm still trying to figure out what yours is.
MacGYVER: (Grunts) Come here. Grab this.
NUBILE YOUNG WOMAN: Uuhhhh!
Holy oilpans, Batman!
LeRoy Carhart's abortion mill looks like a freaking transmission shop! It was next door to a body shop, so you can tell that this neighborhood isn't exactly the high-rent district, and certainly isn't full of medical practices.
Does this look like a fire at a medical facility?
And if you check out the video, you can see that the brickwork in the building is of a car. And not just a car -- an old jalopy.
How fitting!
I know these guys are prone to running tacky practices. Scott Barrett, who killed Stacy Ruckman, ran his abortion mill in the basement of a used car dealership. But I can still never get used to it.
Oh -- and this high class joint is a member of the illustrious National Abortion Federation:
Now, I realize that this is pure conjecture, but -- according to this article, the basement contained papers and medical records.
If this was arson -- and mind you, I"m not saying it is, I'm just pondering -- if this was arson, who would want to burn the medical records, and why?
I wonder if there was a lawsuit filed against him, where he can't provide the patient's records now because they were burned up.
I still think the most likely scenario was just garden variety ill-maintenance of the building. Still, if it does turn out to be arson, cui bono?
Not a happy birthday
On this date in 1996, Carolina Gutierrez's 21st birthday came and went as she remained critically ill in an intensive care unit of a Miami hospital. She had been hospitalized since December 21 of 1995, when her family had called an ambulance in their alarm over her difficulty breathing. Two days of trying to contact Maber Medical Center, where Carolina had undergone an abortion on the 19th, over her husband's objections, had yielded no help. The voice mails she left had gone unanswered. When somebody finally did pick up the phone, whoever it was had hung up on her. The young mother, who had no medical insurance, had been suffering from fever and pain since the evening of the 19th.She had arrived at the emergency room already in septic shock. Doctors had performed an emergency hysterectomy, trying to halt the spread of infection from her perforated uterus, but the sepsis raged on.
Carolina spent her birthday as she had spent Christmas and New Year's: on a respirator, sepsis raging through her body. Her two children from a previous relationship spent most of their time in the care of relatives as her husband, Jose Linarte, spent as much time as he could by Carolina's side, waiting and praying.The sepsis was getting worse. Carolina's fingers and toes were turning black with gangrene. But she was still hanging on, fighting for her life. The staff weren't going to give up on her.
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