[Vision2020] Is there a correlation between "Fore Gras" and Killing Babies!

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

 Joe,

here is one such example:

Botched abortion kills both mother & baby

Posted: September 24, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

I have written only a handful of columns that required fighting back 
the tears. This is one of them.

I got a call last Thursday from a colleague-in-arms asking me for help. 
He wanted me to write the story I am about to tell because it has been 
buried by a conspiratorial level of silence rooted in political and 
media bias.

This is the story about an incredibly loving young girl named Christin. 
A very active high-school graduate and a beloved member of her softball 
team and community, she was sweet beyond the norm as so often is the 
case for children with her diagnosis. She had Down syndrome. (I have 
heard it said, anecdotally, the extra chromosome which characterizes 
Trisomy 21, encodes for love. For those of you blessed enough to know 
anyone with Down syndrome, you will likely agree.)

There is simply something about these gifted children that reminds us 
all about what really matters in life no matter how busy and how 
complicated our lives appear. Sen. Brownback, R-Kan., made just that 
point last week on the third day of hearings on the nomination of Judge 
Roberts.

He spoke on the effects of Roe vs. Wade and on children diagnosed with 
a disability while still in the womb. Specifically, the records show 
that 80-90 percent of all children diagnosed with DS are killed. One 
tragedy to this statistic beyond the obvious taking of life is that 
waiting lists of people exist to adopt these children. These deaths are 
a great loss not only to the mother and family, but society as a whole. 
By way of example, Sen. Brownback spoke of a young man named Jimmy 
diagnosed with DS who operates an elevator in the Senate building.

His warm smile welcomes us every day. We're a better body for him. He 
told me the other day – he frequently gives me a hug in the elevator 
afterwards. I know he does Sen. Hatch often, too, who kindly gives him 
ties, some of which I question the taste of, Orrin ...
(LAUGHTER)
... but he kindly gives ties.
HATCH: It doesn't have to get personal ...
(LAUGHTER)
BROWNBACK: And Jimmy said to me the other day after he hugged me; he 
said Shhh, don't tell my supervisor. They're telling me I'm hugging too 
many people.
(LAUGHTER)
BROWNBACK:    And, yet, we're ennobled by him and what he does and how 
he lifts up our humanity and 80 to 90 percent of the kids in this 
country like Jimmy never get here.

What does that do to us? What does that say about us?

That means Jimmy and Christin were lucky exceptions to the general rule 
and trend to kill the unborn diagnosed with a disability. Sadly, 
Chrisitin's luck unexpectedly ran out this past year when she was not 
only sexually assaulted in January of this year, but remarkably became 
pregnant. No one seems sure of the occurrence that young women 
diagnosed with DS become pregnant. According to the experts I 
consulted, the numbers are likely too rare for an official count. One 
thing is sure, of those becoming pregnant, complications are likely to 
exist.

In Christin's case, she was taken by her family at 28 weeks pregnant to 
Wichita, Kan., to the infamous abortion clinic of Dr. George Tiller. At 
that time, a drug was administered to kill the baby and another drug to 
open the cervix for delivery or removal of the dead baby. After 
starting the procedure, which normally takes 3-4 days, Christin was 
sent to a local hotel to begin her labor.

Somewhat surprisingly, she returned to the clinic the next day, the 
abortion procedure was completed and she was once again told to return 
to her hotel room. Immediately her condition began to deteriorate. When 
she returned to the clinic, her symptoms were misdiagnosed as 
dehydration. She was given an IV and again sent back to her hotel where 
she began having episodes of vomiting and unconsciousness. She was 
advised to return to the clinic where she became unresponsive. By this 
time Christin was in serious trouble. According to one doctor who 
reviewed her autopsy report, she was "bleeding and oozing from every 
orifice of her body."

A clinic employee called 911. More worried abut the clinics image than 
Christin, she begged the dispatcher to turn off the lights or sirens of 
the ambulance. The ambulance arrived and took Christin to the emergency 
room at Wesley Medical Center, but it was too late. Christin died. 
According to the medical examiner's report, her horrifying and painful 
death was a direct result of the abortion. What's worse, it could have 
been prevented if not for the misdiagnosis and slow response of clinic 
staff.

I really must wonder how much she understood of what was happening to 
her during those painful and frightening hours and days leading to her 
death and the death of her baby. But without any coverage from the 
news, no outcry from her parents or the public, Christin is now dead. 
This sweet and precious little girl was sexually assaulted, her baby 
was killed (likely without her consent) then she herself suffered and 
died a brutal and painful end.

God help us for not protecting the most precious and vulnerable among 
us. I can only repeat the questions asked by Sen. Brownback: "What does 
that do to us? What does that say about us?"

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