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

Posted on | February 11, 2013 | 62 Comments

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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Category: Abortion, Maryland, New York

‘And the Grammy Award for Most Implausibly Enhanced Cleavage …’

Posted on | February 11, 2013 | 35 Comments

Katy Perry displayed her ginormous silicone implants.

“Write what you know” is always good advice, and two things I definitely know are awards shows and cleavage.

Back in the day, it was regularly my duty as an assistant national editor working the late-night desk at The Washington Times to compile (in a format known as “combined dispatches”) our coverage of the Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Oscar awards. We went through three editions and the story would have to be updated for each edition until the “three-star” final. It was an enormous headache, with the copy desk awaiting the story as each deadline approached, and me trying to keep up with this celebrity trivia while monitoring the wire services for other late-breaking news developments, also usually covering for the foreign desk on the third edition. God forbid there should be an earthquake or a coup in some foreign country during an awards-show Sunday.

Having escaped that senseless drudgery when I resigned from The Washington Times five years ago — it was as if God said, “Go” — I can’t remember watching an awards show since then. What kind of shallow and adolescent personality would pay attention to these phony made-for-TV spectacles, unless they were being paid to do so as a condition of their employment? So I woke up this morning to the news that the Pope had resigned and, after aggregating that, I then saw the Viral Read liveblog of the Grammy Awards which alerted me to the big news that Katy Perry’s breasts stole the show. And then I went to WeSmirch where, sure enough, I saw the headline:

Katy Perry Is The Only Two Things
That Mattered At The Grammys

She’s actually a very talented singer, and thus the question arises, “Why does Katy Perry feel the need to get breast implants and display the obviously artificial results in this ostentatious manner?”

Don’t even try to tell me those are real, Katy. Trust me, girl, I was an expert on breasts before you were even born, and those are fakies.

Exit Question: Why is it considered offensively “sexist” for guys to pay attention to cleavage, yet it’s entirely acceptable — cute! clever! funny! — when lesbian Ellen DeGeneres does it?

 

Category: Celebrities, Music

POPE BENEDICT XVI RESIGNS

Posted on | February 11, 2013 | 34 Comments

The 86-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church has announced he will retire effective Feb. 28, citing poor health.

UPDATE: In a statement, Pope Benedict writes:

“After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.”

UPDATE II: Pete Da Tech Guy aggregates the online reaction, unfortunately including tasteless hateful anti-Catholic remarks.

UPDATE III: Popes nearly always die in office. How rare are papal resignations? “[T]he last time this happened, Gutenberg hadn’t yet invented the printing press,” Ed Morrissey writes at Hot Air, noting that Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) is also “one of the Church’s greatest living theologian.”

UPDATE IV: A massive aggregation at Memeorandum, with blog reaction including Wlady Pleszczynski of The American Spectator:

The New York Times immediately injects a note of gracelessness:

The announcement is certain to plunge the Roman Catholic world into frenzied speculation about his likely successor and to evaluations of a papacy that was seen as both conservative and contentious.

Why is “conservative” associated with “contentious” in the liberal mind? From whom is Benedict’s papacy to receive this “evaluation”? Never mind: When you’re the New York Times, your mere assertions automatically acquire the equivalent authority of facts.

UPDATE V: In the same liberal alternative universe where people believe everything they read in the New York Times, Frankie Boyle is considered a “comedian”:

More than 1,400 RTs in barely four hours. Liberals are generally humorless, but they think hate is hilarious.

 


Category: Catholics

LIVE AT FIVE: 02.11.13

Posted on | February 11, 2013 | 15 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
LAPD: Fugitive Ex-Cop A “Domestic Terrorist”

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck with Mayor Villaraigosa of LA (L) and Mayor Choi of Irvine (R)

Three dead, LAPD spooked as search enters fifth day

Tornado Rips Through Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Heavy damage but no deaths reported so far

Snowstorm Wallops Long Island, National Guard Activated


Blizzard Hammers New England; Five Dead, 700,000 Without Power
Mother Nature being a stone cold b*tch



POLITICS
President Going To Chicago To “Talk About The Gun Violence”

Obama speaks during the Democratic Issues Conference last week

Part of three-city tour to follow State of the Union address

Lindsey Graham Wants Obama Nominees Held Over Benghazi Questions
“No information, no confirmation”

Many 2011 Budget Cuts Had Little Real-World Effect

Congress No Closer To Staving Off Sequestration Cuts

Lawmakers Call For Oversight Of US Drone Program

Democratic State Legislators Rushing To Submit Gun Control Bills

Dick Cheney Rips Obama’s “Second-Rate” Nominees For National Security Posts

Marine General Joe Dunford Takes Command In Afghanistan



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Futures Mixed – WTI Falls, Brent Rises: NYMEX $95.76, Brent $118.86
American/USAir Merger May Happen As Early As Today
Key Group Of Dell Shareholders Plan To Fight Buyout
European Meat Industry Under Scrutiny As Horsemeat Scandal Spreads
China Eclipses US As Biggest Trading Nation, Based On Goods
Ag Markets Look At Weather, South America For Direction
German Bonds Advance As Draghi Says Further Rate Cuts Possible
Girl Scout Cookie Finder App Helps You Find Your Thin Mints
Samsung Emerges as Potent Rival To Apple’s Cool
Kids Using Coding Skills To Hack Friends On Games
iPhone Users With iOS 6.1 Plagued By Battery Drain, Overheating
Google Chairman Schmidt To Sell Stake Worth $2.5 Billion
BlackBerry Boasts Boffo Early Z10 Sales In UK, Canada
Apple Left Alone To Fight eBook Price Fixing Case As Macmillan Settles



SPORTS
Celtics Outlast Nuggets In Triple Overtime For Seventh Straight Win

Celtics’ Paul Pierce goes to the basket against Denver guard Wilson Chandler

118-114 win breaks Denver’s streak at nine

Bruins Spoil Sabres’ Homecoming, Power Past For 3-1 Win

Heat Burn Lakers 107-97 After Ejecting Lil’ Wayne

Blackhawks Finish Road Trip With Blanking Of Predators, 3-0

#4 Duke Holds On, Barely Manages To Beat Boston College 62-61

Devils Defeat Penguins, Extend Streak To Five

Thunder Rout Suns 97-69

Oilers Break Skid In Columbus, Beat Blue Jackets 3-1

Elbow Issue Stalls Felix Hernandez’ Extension

Kiss It Goodbye Forever: Former Senators Broadcaster Shelby Whitfield Dies, 77



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Courtney Stodden Releases “Reality” Music Video

Courtney Stodden

Exclusive premiere on E! Online

Kate Upton Is Cover Girl For SI’s Swimsuit Issue Again

Christina Applegate Exits NBC’s “Up All Night”

Charlie Sheen Posts Video Asking LA Ex-Cop Killer To Call Him, Talk Things Out

Chris Brown Crashes Car, Totals It, Blames Papparazzi

Rihanna Comforts Chris Brown After Crash

Beyonce & Jay-Z Enjoy Pre-Grammy Dinner Date

Kelly Clarkson Already Has A Wedding Dress

Eminem’s Next Album Due Out After Memorial Day

Selena Gomez Pulls Dangerous Stunt At LAX

Let’s Talk About The Secret To Gregg Williams’ Success

This Is The Line For Marlins Tickets Just Minutes Before They Went On Sale



FOREIGNERS
Death Toll In Allahabad Stampede Reaches 36, Probe Ordered
PRC Greets Year Of The Snake With Fewer Fireworks
Malian Troops, Jihadis Exchange Fire On Outskirts Of Gao
Villagers Mourn Death Of Lolong, World’s Largest Crocodile
Syria’s Druze Shifting Support From Assad Regime To Opposition
Tunisian President’s Party To Withdraw From Ruling Coalition
Kashmir’s Chief Minister Criticizes Hanging Of Afzal Guru
Calls For London Fox Culling As Baby Gets Finger Reattached After Attack



BLOGS & STUFF
Ed Morrissey: Cheney Criticizes Obama’s National Security Appointments, Media Actually Pays Attention
The Lid: Hagel More Worried About Israel Than Iran And Its Cronies
Lonely Conservative: Obama To Pivot Back To The Economy – Again
Byron York: After Ignoring Unemployment, Obama Seeks To Convince Americans It’s His Top Priority
Power Line: Long Day’s Journey, Continued
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Keith Ellison (D-CAIR) Says GOP Core Values Are The Problem
Bob Owens: Ex-Cop Killer Target Of In-Country Drones?
Rick Moran: Pelosi, Democrats In Denial About Spending
Jammie Wearing Fools: Delusional Pelosi – “It’s Almost a False Argument To Say We Have A Spending Problem”
Nice Deb: Insulting – Marines Forced To Remove Bolts From Already Empty Rifles Before Inaugural Parade
Israel Matzav: Obama Reportedly Coming To Israel To Stop Attack On Iran
Legal Insurrection: Dr. Benjamin Carson Sr. Has Them Mostly Silent
Sense Of Events: The Left Goes Racist
Protein Wisdom: What The Hell Is Wrong With People?
JustOneMinute: This Just In…



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Category: Live at Five

Matthew Hoffman: The Ohio Man Who Loved Trees … and Also, Murder and Rape

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 11 Comments

Matthew Hoffman, a ‘real weirdo’

Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of Investigation Discovery (ID) or, as my wife calls it, The Murder Channel. True-crime stories have always fascinated me, and ID is wall-to-wall true crime 24/7. Most of it is domestic murder — wife kills husband or vice-versa — where the major element of viewer interest is the investigative procedure by which detectives solve the crime. Sometimes these shows are horrific, but the more ordinary the motive, the less interesting the crime and, despite the dramatic style of the shows . . . well, it’s kind of, “So what?”

Then there’s the really good stuff: Psycho killers.

What is it about these demented weirdos that makes them so much more interesting than, say, the woman who hires a hit man to kill her husband so she can collect the insurance money? It’s hard to explain, but here’s the description of a show that aired Saturday on ID:

A stalker’s lustful obsession with a small town girl puts a family in grave danger, leading to a sickening killing spree.

As twisted as that may sound, it actually understates the bizarre depravity of Matthew Hoffman, who in 2010 murdered Tina Herrmann, 31; Hermann’s 11-year-old son, Kody Maynard; and Herrmann’s neighbor, Stephanie Sprang, 41. Hoffman then kidnapped Herman’s 13-year-old daughter, Sarah Maynard, whom he held captive in his basement for four days, raping her repeatedly.

And also, he was a tree freak. Read more

Category: Crime

Rule 5 Sunday: “Who Gives A F*** About A G*ddamn Grammy?”

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 10 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Seriously, what passes for popular music these days is so annoying, it’s no wonder radio stations’ audiences are imploding right along with broadcast TV, and the music company dinosaurs are running around in panic as their margins vanish like snow on a warm spring day. That’s why, instead of watching the Grammy awards, I have an Aaron Static mix on the headphones and my fingers on the keyboard to bring you this week’s Rule 5 Sunday. If you’re new here, be careful not to open the links around the children or excessively PC adults, since some of these links are definitely NSFW.


Laughing Conservative leads off this week with Candice Swanepoel, followed by Animal Magnetism with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. Fishersville Mike likes Kacey Musgraves‘ “Merry-Go-Round”, and Ninety Miles From Tyranny has A Woman’s Smile and Late Night Ladies. Reaganite Republican looks at Miss Honduras 2012, Jennifer Andrade, while Randy’s Roundtable goes with Jade Scarmazzo and Lowering the Boom asks “Did Someone Say Boobs?”. Blessed Blasphemy looks at Two Broke Girls, Eye of Polyphemus brings the Emma Stone, and the First Street Journal this week is blogging about the women in the Norwegian Army.


EBL invited us to Fly The Friendly Skies Of Air Menendez, then drew our attention to Lifestyles of the Russian Rich and Crazy, the Tilted Kilt breastaurants, and in a related post, Twin Peaks.


A View From The Beach asks, How about a Vulcan? Also, Perfect Form, The Obligatory Reggie Presely Memorial, Tell It To The Cat Ladies (with cave girl content), Workin’ Womens Blues, Queen Of Hearts, and My Superbowl Prediction.


Soylent Green kicked off with Super Bowl Snooch, followed by Monday Motivationer Annalisa, Overnighty Lorenz, Tuesday Titillation Michelle, Humpday Hawt Angelique, Nothing Says Texas Quite Like…, Falconsword Fursday Tiffany, Corsetcare Castanets, Lest I Forget Again, and Snowmageddon Salve Isis.


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe was Alice Goodwin, his vintage babe was Linda Gray, and the Sex in Advertising department features Bar Rafaeli, the young Sofia Vergara, and Nina Agdal; also, the last obligatory 49ers cheerleader of the season. It was Princess Week at Dustbury, featuring Crown Prince Mary of Denmark and Princess Madeleine of Sweden, who is also Duchess of a couple places with umlauts. At the Camp of the Saints, it was Saskia Howard Clarke and the Rule 5 News.


Last but certainly not least, the DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Maria Menounos, the LA Kings cheerleaders, Kelly Preston, Madison McKinley, Nia Peebles, Sierra Rene, Lauren Conrad, Dayane Mello, and Jacinta Rokich with more rule 5 greatness!


Thanks to everyone for the links! The deadline to have links in to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 Sunday is Saturday, February 16.


Category: Rule 5

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

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 17 Comments

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.

 

 


Category: Abortion, Maryland, Media Bias, Quinton Report

The Brooks/Parker Cage Match

Posted on | February 10, 2013 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

I don’t run around wishing mayhem on people, but I bet a cage match between Star Parker and David Brooks would sell some tickets. Brooks begins an interesting exchange beginning around 9:00:

(emphasis mine):

There’s been a lot of calls for Republicans to change. And we have seen that from everybody to Paul Ryan to Marco Rubio. Now we’re beginning to see the donor class really begin to change. There is some question, are they trying to change just the candidates, so they don’t get Todd Akin, or they trying to actually change some of the substance?
And, so far , it seems to be just the candidates. One of the interesting things — and I can’t say I know the answer to this — is, how much will the Tea Party fight back? There has been some effort that they are saying, oh, the establishment is taking over.
But my own sense of things so far is that there is not the will to fight among the Tea Party and that a lot of people in the Tea Party are, frankly — they’re not — they are also Republicans. And a lot of — say, Rush Limbaugh, for example, who is not Tea Party, he’s more an establishment Republican who wants the Republican Party to win.
So I have a feeling that the establishment is going to have maybe an easier time of it than some might think.

Star Parker takes completely the opposite tack (emphasis still mine):

Karl Rove would like to weed out candidates like former Missouri Rep. Todd Akin. Akin, who was defeated by Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill in the Senate race in Missouri, was a six-term Republican congressman with a flawless conservative record. For most of 2012 he was ahead of McCaskill in the polls. Then, in August, he expressed himself poorly in an interview about abortion. Despite his apologies and efforts to clarify himself, his own party abandoned him.
McCaskill ran ads, over and over, showing Mitt Romney questioning Akin’s qualifications. This race could have been saved. But the party elite wasted not a second to dump Akin because they were not comfortable with his conservative values to begin with.
We’re living in a deeply troubled country today. Americans are looking for answers, not a political class feathering its own nest. There are tens of millions of conservative American patriots who seek an opposition party to represent their conviction that America will not get back on the path to strength and prosperity without restoration of freedom, limited government, free markets and traditional values.
Today’s big question is whether the Republican Party is going to be that opposition party. If not, it is not conservative values and convictions that will be abandoned. It will be the Republican Party.

My thought is that the GOP heads view the Tea Parties as sort of a warmed-over collection of malcontents, a la Perot voters in 1992 (and I was one) who can be gently herded back into the fold. Flock you, GOP: we’re not sheep!

The technology has shifted to the point that the GOP elite commitment to Progress in lieu of limited government is painful, obvious, and not being tolerated at the polls, 2008 and 2012 mean much. Hint to GOP elite: if you want to go for a three-loss trifecta, all you have to do is heed Karl Rove and run Jeb Bush.

Category: GOP
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