Category: Abortion

Why Does @BridgetteDunlap Want to Suppress the Truth About Abortion?

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Monday night, after praising Jill Stanek’s reporting of this story, I found myself criticized on Twitter by Bridgette Dunlap, a law student who has a fellowship at Fordham University’s Leitner Center for International Law and Justice:

OK, fine, Bridgette: Let’s have a long, ugly quarrel on Twitter where you lecture me about privacy rights and I’m forced to advocate the public’s “right to know” argument by which the New York Times justifies leaking classified national-security information.

Accuse me of disrespecting the Morbelli family’s grief, denounce me for seeking to exploit this woman’s death for the sake of politics and I will repeat what I’ve said before: I don’t care, just stop ignoring this story.

This story isn’t about me or you or Jill Stanek. This story is about an abortionist who left a woman to bleed to death. If you want to target Jill Stanek for a lawsuit, please go right ahead, Bridgette, and I’ll cover the lawsuit, because that will call attention to the shameful enormity of the bloody career of this disgraceful butcher, LeRoy Carhart.

Double-dog dare ya.

No, Bridgette, you wouldn’t dare pursue such a lawsuit, because you know as well as I do that the more Americans learn about what “late-term abortion” really means, the more they’ll be horrified to know that the United States is one of only four countries in the world — along with China, North Korea and Canada — where abortions are legal in the 33rd week of pregnancy.

This is a gruesome stain on our national conscience, and it ought to be against the law. Because you know that the truth about late-term abortion would disgust decent people, Bridgette, you’re attempting to intimidate journalists into believing (wrongly) that naming Jennifer McKenna Morbelli as the victim of Carhart’s butchery, or using a previously published photo of her is somehow unethical or illegal.

Hey, I got news for you sweetheart: I didn’t start doing this job last week, and you don’t scare me a bit.

Jennifer Morbelli’s death is now being investigated by state officials in Maryland; it is therefore a matter of public record and I defy you or anyone to argue that it is not legitimate news.

Meanwhile, your attempt to suppress the truth will only cause more people to report the truth: “Streisand Effect,” look it up.

Here’s Matt Vespa covering the story at PJ Media, and here’s Ken Klukowski reporting it at Breitbart.com. Just in case that’s not enough coverage for you, Bridgette, the U.K. Daily Mail is now on the story:

Anti-abortion activists have taken up the tragic case of a 29-year-old woman from upstate New York who died while terminating her advanced pregnancy, demanding the closing of the clinic where the procedure was performed.
On Monday, more than 150 pro-life activists gathered near the clinic in Germantown, Maryland, accusing the head of the medical center, Dr LeRoy Carhart, of being directly responsible for the death of Jennifer McKenna Morbelli last week.
‘We will not rest until this clinic is shut down and the license of LeRoy Carhart is revoked. God let it be so,’ the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said at the demonstration.

Welcome to the Information Age, Bridgette. And good luck with your career as a commissar in the Thought Police.

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Maryland Attorney General Investigates Abortionist Linked in Woman’s Death

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Steve Ertelt at Life News reports:

Following a new probe started by local officials, the Maryland Attorney General has opened an investigation into the late-term abortion practitioner who killed a woman last week in a botched abortion.
The Maryland Attorney General’s office is not specifically looking into the death of 29-year-old woman from a botched 33-week abortion last week. The woman has been identified as 29-year-old Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, of New Rochelle, New York.
Instead, the office notified the Maryland Coalition for Life and Operation Rescue that is has late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart and Germantown Reproductive Health Services under an active criminal investigation for illegal dumping, based on complaints made by both groups last year. This investigation is separate to ongoing investigations into Morbelli’s death, OR informed LifeNews today, that are currently underway by the State Medical Examiner, the Montgomery Police Department, and the state’s Office of Health Care Quality.

So . . . illegally dumping, the Attorney General might prosecute as a crime. Botching an abortion and killing a woman, not so much.

Whatever. Pro-lifers learn to be grateful for any minor official attention to the shoddy practices of abortionists. More headlines at Life News:

Meanwhile, the media embargo crumbles further with this report from Sylvia Carignan in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Gazette:

The state medical examiner is investigating the death of a New York woman who sought a late-term abortion from a controversial Germantown clinic.
Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, 29, was pronounced dead at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital on Feb. 7, according to Bruce Goldfarb, spokesperson for the chief medical examiner.
The Maryland Coalition for Life pinned her death on Dr. LeRoy Carhart, a Nebraska-based physician who began performing abortions at the Germantown Reproductive Health Services clinic in 2010. . . .

Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, there is this press release quoting Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue:

“For years we have documented Carhart’s abortion abuses. This time we pray authorities will quickly act before he has the opportunity to kill again,” said Sullenger. . . .
Sullenger continued, “The tragic death of Mrs. Morbelli from a botched 33-week abortion may be the catalyst that will finally bring Carhart to justice. It’s too bad that a woman had to die before authorities would sit up and take notice.”

Bob Belvedere has a round-up on the Jennifer Morbelli story: “Butchery In Germantown.” I’m worried butchers may sue Bob for libel.

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Media Embargo Slowly Crumbling on Jennifer McKenna Morbelli’s Death

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Jennifer McKenna Morelli with her future husband in 2008

Jennifer Morbelli died last Thursday at Shady Grove Hospital in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. after undergoing a gruesome third-term abortion ordeal at Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s Germantown Reproductive Health clinic. A 29-year-old married kindergarten teacher in the affluent Westchester County suburbs of New York, Morbelli had actually named her unborn daughter Madison Leigh, but reportedly decided to seek an abortion in her 33rd week of pregnancy after prenatal testing diagnosed her baby as suffering from a disorder that causes seizures.

Both Morbelli and her daughter will be recognized at a funeral mass Wednesday — coincidentally, Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent — at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in New Rochelle.

Carhart has been called “likely the most prominent abortionist in America.” Carhart has been the plaintiff in two cases that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and was featured in a highly-praised documentary, After Tiller, about an abortionist who was assassinated in 2009.

Given these facts, ask yourself a question: How could any news editor look at the death of Jennifer Morbelli and say, “That”s not a story”?

This is not merely news, it’s got enough of a human-interest angle to deserve at least a two-hour network special or a magazine cover story.

Forget your opinion about the legal and political controversies involved and think about the basic journalistic news value of this story. Here is a profound human tragedy, a young woman who died in a heartbreaking circumstance which just happens to be a microcosm of a major national issue, and . . . that’s not a story? Turn in your press credentials, clean out your desk and find yourself another line of work.

This was why, last Friday, I called attention to the complete news blackout on the story: Jennifer Morbelli died in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., and yet neither the Washington Post nor the Baltimore Sun deemed it newsworthy? The illogic was glaring, and the Washington Post finally did a 350-word article inside the Metro section of Sunday’s paper. The media embargo crumbled further yesterday when the Journal News in Westchester County, N.Y., reported on the death of the local kindergarten teacher. And now the Washington Post has followed up with coverage of Monday’s press conference by pro-life activists:

The Maryland Office of Health Care Quality is investigating the death of a woman who visited a controversial abortion clinic in Germantown before dying last week at a local hospital.
More than 150 demonstrators gathered near the clinic Monday to step up their efforts to draw national attention to the case, asserting that the clinic’s leader, LeRoy Carhart, was directly responsible for the woman’s death and that she had come to his office for a multi-day abortion procedure when she was 33 weeks pregnant.
“We will not rest until this clinic is shut down and the license of LeRoy Carhart is revoked. God let it be so,” the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said at the demonstration.
The circumstances leading to the woman’s death remained unclear Monday. State and county officials confirmed that she had visited the abortion clinic and that she died Thursday morning at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, but they offered no details.
Antiabortion demonstrators seized upon the incident to try to sway public opinion about late-term procedures. Many of their specific claims about the case could not be immediately verified. . . .

You can read the whole thing, and I could criticize how the reporter, Dan Morse, handled the story, making “antiabortion demonstrators” (rather than LeRoy Carhart or Jennifer Morbelli) the central characters of the narrative and insinuating that their version of events was unreliable. (As I pointed out Monday night, “If it weren’t for pro-life activists who keep constant vigil at this facility, we might not even know about Jennifer Morbelli’s painful death.”) But I’m not criticizing Morse, at least not at length, because at this point I really don’t care how much pro-abortion spin or liberal bias goes into mainstream media coverage of the story, just so long as they actually cover the story.

In the same spirit, therefore, let us applaud Roseann Moring and Robby Korth of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald for their coverage:

A New York woman’s death has put Bellevue abortion provider LeRoy Carhart back in the national spotlight.
Abortion opponents say a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher died Thursday after getting a late-term abortion at Carhart’s clinic in Germantown, Md.
Carhart did not return messages left on his cellphone Monday. A woman who answered the phone at his Bellevue clinic said he would not be available for comment.
Maryland authorities confirmed the woman’s death but said they still are investigating the cause. Montgomery County (Md.) Police and the Medical Examiner’s Office declined to say whether she had been at Carhart’s clinic.
So far, abortion opponents are the only ones who have publicly linked the death to Carhart’s clinic.
Carhart is one of the nation’s few doctors who perform late-term abortions. He had done so at Bellevue’s Abortion and Contraception Clinic until 2010, when the Nebraska Legislature banned abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation.
He then opened the Germantown Reproductive Health Services clinic about 30 miles north of Washington, D.C.
Carhart also considered opening a late-term abortion clinic in Council Bluffs.
In response, Iowa lawmakers proposed legislation aimed at keeping him out of the state. . . .

Read the whole thing and notice that, like the Washington Post‘s Dan Morse, the World-Herald reporters don’t name Jennifer Morbelli as the victim, and make clear that they are merely reporting the assertions made by “abortion opponents.” Heaven forbid that any mainstream reporter should actually do some actual journalism the way “just a blogger” Jill Stanek did on this story.

If you know anything about Jill Stanek (which, of course, no liberal reporter would) you know that she wouldn’t report something like this unless she was absolutely certain of the facts, and so this concern-troll attitude that Stanek’s reporting “could not be immediately verified” bespeaks the incompetence and sloth of reporters who can’t be bothered, at least, to contact Stanek as a source. (Hint: She’s on Twitter.)

However, I don’t want to complain too much about this, because I’m genuinely grateful for any mainstream media coverage of this story. In fact, if some left-wing feminist blogger like Amanda Marcotte or Elspeth Reeve decided to do a post condemning pro-life bloggers for their coverage of Jennifer Morbelli’s death, I would absolutely welcome it. Please, feel free to denounce me by name, call me a hateful misogynist or whatever, and I don’t care: Just stop ignoring the story.

There will be a funeral in New Rochelle tomorrow morning — Ash Wednesday — and I defy anyone to say that funeral isn’t legitimate news.

 

 

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Despite Death in Carhart Clinic, Fanatics Want to Open Abortion Clinic in Wichita

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Their obessive devotion to baby-killng is remarkable:

Wichita, Kansas, has been without a local abortion provider since an anti-abortion extremist murdered Dr. George Tiller in his church in May 2009. Now, one of Tiller’s former employees has bought his clinic and intends to reopen it this spring.
The Trust Women Foundation, led by former Tiller spokeswoman Julie Burkhart, purchased Tiller’s old office last September. The group has raised most of the $1 million it will take to reopen the clinic, and Burkhart, 46, and her staff have been busy renovating the office and recruiting doctors. Burkhart . . . worked with Tiller at the clinic for seven years, and had moved away from Wichita shortly before his murder. She has since moved back to reopen the clinic, which she and her colleagues plan to call South Wind Women’s Center.

Tiller’s late-term abortion disciple, LeRoy Carhart, sent Jennifer McKenna Morbelli to an early grave in Maryland last week, but Julie Burkhart thinks what Wichita needs is a baby-killing center:

Here we live in a pretty good-sized city, Wichita, with a metropolitan area of around 650,000 people. It’s like really, come on. We’re a town that used to have three abortion clinics. Shouldn’t we be able to have at least one ob-gyn practice that offers abortion care? . . .

(“Abortion care”?)

We’re looking at a few thousand women who now have to travel outside the area each year. . . . Some people would say, “Just leave it alone and let it go.” However, we can’t really have true freedom in this country until everyone can access that right. . . .

(Oh, my goodness, “a few thousand women who now have to travel outside the area each year” to kill their babies. This is unacceptable!)

Frankly, the only people we get the pushback from by and large are the antis. They’re good bullies. But people in this community are speaking out maybe a little bit more. There’s a little bit more understanding. We want people to understand that this is a new day; this is a new clinic. We’re working on a different model of health care for women. And we’re not going to be pushed around by the antis.

Yes, the “antis” — people who are against killing babies — are “bullies,” whereas the people who get paid to kill babies are . . . What? Never mind. Don’t think too hard about it, just repeat your slogans about “health care” and “rights” and “access,” shut down your conscience and try not to think about what’s actually going on inside the “South Wind Women’s Center” and maybe, with the help of anti-depressants and sedatives, you’ll be able to sleep at night, you soulless bloodthirsty ghouls.

 

How Many More Women Will Die Before Abortionist LeRoy Carhart Is Stopped?

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“LeRoy Carhart is likely the most prominent abortionist in America.
“Carhart was the plaintiff in two U.S. Supreme Court cases, Stenberg v. Carhart in 2000 . . . and Gonzales v. Carhart in 2007 . . .
“Carhart is also one of four abortionists . . . featured in the new documentary, After Tiller, which just received rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. . . .
“Jennifer and her family came to Carhart for help, albeit misguided, and he destroyed them.”
— Jill Stanek, “BREAKING: Carhart’s victims identified”

“Maryland is one of the most pro-choice communities in the country.”
— Dr. LeRoy Carhart, 2011

“Never Again” is the headline from Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life:

Carhart has a long history of abhorrent practices at his late-term abortion facilities. He should have been shut down a long time ago. If he had, this mother and child and countless others would still be alive today. He needs to be stopped immediately.

Jennifer McKenna Morbelli and her daughter Madison Leigh are certainly not the first victims of LeRoy Carhart’s “abhorrent practices,” and they will not be his last, so long as Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and other officials turn a blind eye to this man’s shameful butchery.

Carhart’s Germantown Reproductive Health clinic provides women “reproductive health” in roughly the same sense that Auschwitz and Buchenwald were “Jewish community centers.”

The euphemistic name of Carhart’s Maryland clinic is a lie, an attempt to conceal the bloody truth: LeRoy Carhart kills babies for a living.

If it weren’t for pro-life activists who keep constant vigil at this facility, we might not even know about Jennifer Morbelli’s painful death:

After a name ID was received from an impeccable informant, sidewalk counselors at the abortion clinic positively identified Jennifer’s obituary photo. . . .
Carhart began the abortion process on Sunday, February 3, in the afternoon, according to sidewalk counselors who maintain a constant presence at the clinic when it is open. They noted Jennifer appeared “very” late-term. . . .
Sunday is when Carhart kills late-term babies by lethal injection into the heart through the mothers’ abdominal wall.
Jennifer and her family returned on Monday, presumably to begin the labor induction process by insertion of laminaria or prostaglandins to dilate the cervix, and again on Tuesday.
They likely spent each night at a nearby hotel, as is the usual process for a multi-day, late-term abortion at Carhart’s Germantown clinic.
Each day sidewalk counselors noted in real-time annotations that Jennifer appeared more and more pale.
The family returned again on Wednesday, presumably for the delivery of Jennifer’s dead baby Madison, staying nine hours, an extraordinary length of time. They left at 4:35 p.m.
Carhart and his wife Mary Lou left soon afterward. The two typically fly out on Wednesday afternoons to either Indianapolis, Indiana, or Bellevue, Nebraska, to commit abortions on Thursdays. Carhart is what’s known as a “circuit rider” abortionist.

The nauseating gruesomeness of this procedure — requiring three entire days — is a major reason why so few doctors are willing to engage in this practice, but it is common enough that Carhart’s deadly services are in demand in three states, despite his “shoddy” record:

In 2005, another Carhart patient, 19-year old Christin Gilbert, also died from the risky late-term abortion procedure employed by Carhart and other third trimester abortionists across the nation. Operation Rescue has documented nearly a dozen additional serious complications over the past three years related to this same procedure, raising serious questions about its safety.

Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life:

“It has happened again. Another mother has been killed by so-called ‘safe and legal’ abortion. It happens constantly, in fact, but the abortion industry usually succeeds in covering it up. And even when they don’t, the rest of us succeed in keeping it relatively quiet.
“That has to change today. . . .
“Three things need to happen here. First, the state of Maryland has to shut down Carhart’s killing business. Second, every person who cares about this needs to spread the word immediately about this tragedy, to awaken the consciences of our neighbors. This includes pastors speaking out about the harm abortion does, and it includes all of us telling the stories of those harmed and killed by abortion.
“Third, we need to redouble our efforts to mobilize people in the pro-life cause. If this latest tragedy isn’t enough evidence that the time to end abortion is now, then what is?”

Michael Martelli, Executive Director of Maryland Coalition for Life:

“It is so tragic that this family had to lose not only their nearly full-term child, but also their wife, daughter, and sister. What is most appalling is that the State of Maryland refused to hear the pleas of this community, and has allowed this man to continue to butcher women and children.”

John Jalsevac reports that the pro-abortion opinions of liberal journalists account for the lack of coverage by major news organizations:

Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue, the pro-life group that broke the news of the death, says he believes it is “typical” of the mainstream media that they are reticent to do “due diligence” to investigate the story and report on it.
“It’s because they’re pro-abortion,” Newman told LifeSiteNews.com in a telephone interview. “And bad news for the abortion industry is bad news for them. They’ll only report it when they’re forced to.”

This tragedy — the second woman to die as a result of receiving “reproductive health” from LeRoy Carhart — is outrageous enough that the mainstream media cannot ignore it. And already, the Westchester, N.Y., Journal News has broken the media embargo:

Authorities in Maryland said Monday that they are investigating the death of a 29-year-old New Rochelle woman who reportedly traveled to the Washington D.C. suburbs for a late-term abortion.
Jennifer Morbelli, a teacher at the Church Street School in White Plains, died Thursday at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, prompting an investigation by the Montgomery County Medical Examiner, a probe which has also involved the Montgomery County Police Department.
According to an Associated Press report, Morbelli went to the Rockville, Md., hospital after being treated at Germantown Reproductive Health Services, a separate clinic.
The story has sparked a fierce online debate among abortion opponents. Kathy Morbelli, the dead woman’s mother-in-law, told The Journal News Monday that she is extremely upset with the rhetoric.
“They know she was a wanted baby, they know she was named,” she said. “I just wish that the people could let my son, who is only 29 years old, mourn in peace…. We have no comment on the doctor.”

Nobody wants to interfere with this family’s mourning. Nor is there any “fierce online debate among abortion opponents.”

The time for debate is over. The time for action has arrived.

These grisly atrocities must end. Officials in Maryland must act.

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Carhart Victim Identified: N.Y. Woman Sought Abortion for ‘Fetal Abnormalities’

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Jennifer McKenna Morelli with her future husband in 2008

Oh, this is heartbreaking: Jill Stanek reports that the woman who died at Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s Maryland clinic was a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher. Jennifer McKenna Morbelli of New Rochelle, N.Y., taught at Church Street Elementary in White Plains. She was married, and this was a wanted pregnancy — she had already named her daughter Madison Leigh — but about two weeks ago, “Jennifer learned her daughter suffered from fetal anomalies.”

Need more heartbreaking cruelty? Morbelli’s obituary states:

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday 10am at Holy Name of Jesus in New Rochelle.

Yes — she was Catholic.

New York Times to stop ignoring this story in 3, 2, 1 . . .

UPDATE: Remember that there was originally a complete news blackout of this woman’s death in the mainstream media. Despite the fact that it occurred Thursday in the Montgomery County suburbs of D.C. — and was the subject of a Friday press conference by pro-life groups — the Washington Post‘s first coverage of the story was limited to a 350-word item inside Sunday’s Metro section.

UPDATE II: The victim’s June 2008 engagement was announced in the Morris (N.J.) News-Bee:

Lisa and Kevin McKenna of New Rochelle, N.Y., announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer McKenna, to Timothy James Morbelli, son of Kathryn and Mario Morbelli of Morris Plains, formerly of Randolph Township.
The future bride graduated from New Rochelle High School and the University of Delaware. She is a kindergarten teacher.
Her fiancé is a graduate of Randolph High School and the University of Delaware, Newark. He is attending the New York University Stern School of Business, pursuing a master’s degree. He is a risk and P&L credit derivative analyst with Credit Suisse in New York City.
A June 2009 wedding in Newport, R.I., is planned.

And now, a February 2013 funeral is planned. Her husband, family and friends ought to be remembered in everyone’s prayers.

UPDATE III: Jeff Quinton points out that Maryland’s Democratic governor has made the state a haven for Carhart’s deadly practice:

The question must be asked: Is the administration of Governor Martin O’Malley partly responsible for her death? . ..
Under Governor Martin O’Malley, Carhart was granted a license to perform abortions in Maryland despite his track record and despite lies on his application to the medical board . . .

Bob Belvedere calls Carhart “The Germantown Butcher,” and Pete Da Tech Guy says that “late-term abortionist” is the perfect career for those who finish last in their class at medical school.

UPDATE IV: The bland phrase “late-term abortion” does not adequately capture the gruesomeness of these atrocities, which are legal in only four nations: China, North Korea, Canada and the United State. Jennifer Borelli was in her 33rd week of pregnancy — that is to say, eight months pregnant, and just six weeks from full term — and Steven Ertelt’s report gives some idea of the horrible multi-day ordeal necessary to terminate a pregnancy at that late stage:

According to information the pro-life group Operation Rescue released to LifeNews on Friday, the then-unnamed woman arrived at Germantown Reproductive Health Center on Sunday to start the abortion process. Local pro-life advocates protesting outside saw her every day until [Thursday], and described her as appearing “pale and weak.”
Early Thursday morning, the woman began suffering chest pain and other discomforts, the group informed LifeNews. Her attempts to reach Carhart were unsuccessful. The woman was taken by her family from her hotel to a nearby hospital emergency room at approximately 5:00 a.m. Efforts by hospital staff to contact Carhart or get informational assistance from the abortion clinic were unsuccessful.
Operation Rescue says the abortion patient suffered massive internal bleeding into her abdominal cavity. She slipped into a Code Blue condition approximately six times before finally succumbing to her injuries at around 9:30 a.m. The case has been placed with the Medical Examiner for further investigation.

This is legal. The state of Maryland gave Dr. Carhart a license to do this. Federal law provides special protections to such clinics against protests.

How do these “pro-choice” people sleep at night?

UPDATE V: Operation Rescue reports:

Efforts by family and hospital staff to reach Carhart when Mrs. Morbelli’s condition worsened were unsuccessful and [Carhart’s unavailability] may have contributed to her death.
“This is a case of not only shoddy practices, but patient abandonment that we believe rises to the level of criminal conduct,” said [Operation Rescue president Troy] Newman. “We will press for criminal charges in this case, in addition to Board discipline.”
In 2005, another Carhart patient, 19-year old Christin Gilbert, also died from the risky late-term abortion procedure employed by Carhart and other third trimester abortionists across the nation. Operation Rescue has documented nearly a dozen additional serious complications over the past three years related to this same procedure, raising serious questions about its safety.
“We urge the immediate passage of laws at the state level banning late-term abortions in order to protect other women and their viable babies from unnecessary injury and death,” said Newman.

Just FYI, the hospital where Jennifer Morbelli died is the same hospital where my three youngest children were born.

 

 

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Finally: Washington Post Covers Death of Woman at Maryland Abortion Clinic

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Friday, I described a complete blackout by the mainstream media in regard to reports that a 29-year-old woman died after a late-term abortion at the clinic of the notorious Dr. LeRoy Carhart.

In particular, I called out the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, because this clinic — run by a sort of celebrity abortionist — is in Germantown, Maryland, just 20 miles from the nation’s capital. Trust me, if some nut with a gun had opened fire on Carhart’s clinic, the Post and the Sun would devote front-page coverage to the story. If a woman dies after a botched abortion . . . eh, not so much.

Jeff Quinton reports that the Washington Post has now broken the mainstream media embargo of this story. The Post‘s Dan Morse reports:

The Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Montgomery County Police Department are investigating the death of a woman who died at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital on Thursday — days after she was believed to have started an abortion procedure at a controversial clinic in Germantown. . . .
In this case, the 29-year-old woman, who has not been identified, died Thursday after being taken to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, according to local and state officials.
The circumstances that led to her death are unclear. Carhart and clinic officials could not be reached. . . .
“At this point, there is no indication of any criminal activity in this case,” said Capt. Paul Starks, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Police Department.

OK, it’s only a 350-word item in the Metro section, but it’s something. Still nothing from the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times, USA Today or the Associated Press, but at least now one major news organization has grudgingly acknowledged that a 29-year-old woman has died after being treated at the clinic where “Doctor Death” was willing to perform an abortion in the 33rd week of pregnancy.

Yes, I said the 33rd week — eight months pregnant — which is actually legal in Maryland. So maybe “there is no indication of any criminal activity,” as the police spokesman said, but there is butchery and horror and evil. Lots and lots of evil. Also, a dead 29-year-old woman.

We mustn’t forget the #WarOnWomen.

 

 


Teenage Sex in the News (Also: Questions the SPLC Doesn’t Want You to Ask)

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Item One: A judge in England refused to impose a prison sentence for statutory rape on an 18-year-old man who had sex with “a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook” because Adil Rashid “went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless.”

So, basically, if you’re a Muslim guy in England, seventh-graders are fair game. “Go for it,” says Judge Michael Stokes.

Item Two: Laws requiring parental consent for underage girls to get abortions “reduce the minor abortion rate by 18.7 percent . . . In states with parental consent laws, the abortion rate declines by 23.1 percent for 17-year-olds, by 19.9 percent for 16-year-olds, and by 16.6 percent for 15-year-olds.”

No wonder liberals oppose these laws: Not only do parental consent laws reduce the abortion rate, but such laws may actually permit parents to discover that their underage daughters are having sex, which in some cases would actually be a crime, so that these laws could result in sexual predators going to prison. And this might be a bad thing for certain New Jersey Democrats.

Item Three: Zack Ford of Think Progress is very interested in gay rights and also, middle-schoolers.

Well, who are we to judge? I mean, there’s nothing suspicious — certainly nothing creepy — about gay progressives taking such a keen interest in what seventh-graders are taught about sexual orientation.

Item Four: Zack Ford of Think Progress is very interested in gay rights and also, Boy Scouts.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Item Five: Kelly Watson, 34, was a teacher at a California school that “serves adolescent boys with emotional and learning challenges.” She pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old student and was put on probation. She is pregnant with her teenage lover’s child.

It’s California. What some people may consider weird — and possibly even wrong — is just an “alternative lifestyle” in California.

Item Six: Even in California, they have to draw the line somewhere: Samuel Gonzales was sentenced to 157 years in prison for a series of sex crimes “including a 13-year-old girl he impregnated and raped her again three weeks after she’d given birth. . . . Gonzalez’ crimes go back to the early 1990s, but were not investigated until 2011 when a 19-year-old female relative came forward to authorities claiming Gonzalez had fondled her breast. The young woman’s sister told investigators Gonzalez began abusing her when she was 8 years old, noting by the time she was 11 it was happening daily.”

Unlike Kelly Watson, Samual Gonzales isn’t a blonde school teacher. She gets probation. He gets 157 years in prison.

Item Seven: Why did the Southern Poverty Law Center want gay progressive Floyd Corkins to kill interns at the Family Research Council? “Corkins admitted that he wanted to ‘kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard,'” says Anna Maria Hoffman, 20, who was terrorized by the SPLC-inspired assassin that day last August. “I was one of those people who could have been his victim. I was on the 6th floor of the FRC building working on my pro-life internship assignments. I could have lost my life.”

Of course, the SPLC denies that its “Kill Map” of conservatives was intended to result in Floyd Corkins terrorizing Anna Maria Hoffman. Just like other gay progressives would deny that their fanatical interest in middle-schoolers and Boy Scouts is anything other than an egalitarian concern for social justice. And the only reason Robert Menendez took those trips to the Dominican Republic was to enjoy the sunshine.

Item Eight: North Carolina State University spent $304.69 to purchase butt plugs, vibrators, dildos and other sexual devices as prizes for a “Dirty Bingo” event. NCSU official Lauryn Collier says the purpose of “Dirty Bingo” is to “find ‘innovative’ ways to discuss sexual health on the campus … The certified educators plan to use some of the items … to demonstrate healthy sex practices.”

Does the phrase “certified educators” inspire . . . skepticism? Suspicion? An urge to cross-check the names of these “educators” against the national sex-offender registry? See, here’s the old-fashioned common-sense reaction to things like this:

“Wait a minute — these freaks are so interested in talking about sex with college kids that they went through some kind of special program to get ‘certified’ to do this? And then this ‘education’ takes the form of giving the kids dildos and buttplugs and lubricant? Because this is necessary to teach kids about ‘sexual health’? Get away from my daughter, you perverts, or I’ll call the cops.”

Suppressing this kind of common-sense reaction is what political correctness is all about. Old-fashioned common sense is categorized as “hate,” so that everybody is afraid to raise any objection to this kind of stuff, and next thing you know, Zack Ford is taking your seventh-grade Scouts on a camping trip with a knapsack full of Rohypnol.

You’re not even allowed to make jokes like that anymore. It is now considered “hate” to suggest that any gay man has ever had any sexual interest in anyone a day younger than 18, or to imply — as Justice Antonin Scalia did in his dissent in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision — that the logic of the “gay rights” movement could lead to the legitimization of other forms of sexual deviance:

State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers’ validation of laws based on moral choices. Every single one of these laws is called into question by today’s decision . . .  The impossibility of distinguishing homosexuality from other traditional “morals” offenses is precisely why Bowers rejected the rational-basis challenge. “The law,” it said, “is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the Due Process Clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.”

Two years ago, there was an uproar over a Baltimore gathering of “mental health professionals” who wanted to “de-stigmatize” pedophilia and have it removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s listing of mental disorders. As I pointed out at the time, the president of the organization behind the conference was a self-confessed “boy lover” named Richard Kramer who had written:

“We need to confront the stigmatization, demonization, and stereotyping that exists due simply to our attraction to children or adolescents, regardless of our behavior.”

Kramer established the Male Homosexual Attraction to Minors Information Center in 2003, and no one can accuse Kramer of representing a larger threat without risk of being labeled a “hater.” Yet if we see matters drifting steadily in a certain direction, are we wrong to ask whether the effect of certain arguments is identical with the intent of those arguments? That is to say, isn’t it common sense to suspect that some “unintended consequences” are actually intended?

Well, political correctness cannot tolerate common sense as a basis for objecting to the progressive agenda. Start asking too many questions about their agenda, and the Southern Poverty Law Center will designate you as a “hate” group, with your own star on the SPLC “Kill Map” and — tut, tut — it sure would be a bad thing if any crazed progressive fanatic took that designation seriously and decided to shoot you.