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A 29-year-old woman died Thursday after undergoing a late-term abortion at the Maryland clinic operated by the notorious Dr. LeRoy Carhart. However, despite Carhart’s international reputation, no major news organization is covering the reported death.
The victim, who was eight months pregnant, traveled from out of state to the Germantown Reproductive Health Center that Carhart operates in suburban Montgomery County, about 20 miles from Washington, D.C. The pro-life group Operation Life reports:
The woman, who came for a third trimester abortion from out-of-state, arrived at GRHC on Sunday and was seen by pro-life activists every day through Wednesday. Witnesses said she appeared “pale and weak.” Early Thursday morning, the woman began suffering chest pain and other discomforts. 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. The 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.
Carhart is a celebrity of the pro-abortion movement. Described as “one of the few doctors in the U.S. to openly perform late-term abortions,” Carhart was an associate of Dr. George Tiller, who was assassinated in 2009. Michael Martelli of the Maryland Coalition for Life notes that Carhart “was hailed as a ‘hero’ in the film ‘After Tiller’ at the recent Sundance Film Festival.” Now that a 29-year-old woman has reportedly died as a result of Carhart’s butchery, however, it seems that no major news organization considers him newsworthy.
Neither the Washington Post nor the Baltimore Sun has yet reported on this woman’s death in Maryland, despite the fact that there was an 11 a.m. press conference today in front of the Germantown clinic. The story is also being ignored by the Associated Press, USA Today, the New York Times, and television news networks. As of 1:30 p.m. Friday, the largest organizations reporting the story were WorldNetDaily and LifeNews.com.
The local Montgomery Gazette was the only newspaper to send a reporter to the press conference, Martelli told me in a brief telephone interview this afternoon. Martelli said he had been contacted about the story by only a “few” reporters, “mostly from pro-life or Christian organizations.” The Maryland Coalition for Life has announced that it will hold a prayer vigil, memorial, and follow-up press conference at 9 a.m. Monday near the Germantown clinic where Carhart performed the botched abortion.
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Jack in Wi| 2.8.13 @ 2:20PM
Yet in Irelend when a women died because she was refused a late term abortion it was worldwide news. The press is disgraceful. This women wanted to murder her baby. If it was just a health issue she could of had a ceasarian and the baby could have been saved. Never expect the press to tell the truth about abortion. They wonder why no-one reads their stuff anymore.
Bandido| 2.8.13 @ 2:31PM
Certainly the media doesn't feel compelled to report bungled abortions. Why should they? For them, abortion is a commomplace, everyday occurrence. Like driving. They don't report every crash; accidents are unfortunate but we all have to get somewhere. So, too, with abortion, goes the thinking. A woman has as much right to an abortion as she does to driving a car. We make cars safer all the time; abortion has a good safety record too. After all, these aren't the bad old days of coat hangers and back alleys.
spike59| 2.11.13 @ 5:38AM
"abortion has a good safety record too."
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tens of millions of aborted babies might disagree---oh, yeah, they CAN'T-they're dead
Bandido| 2.11.13 @ 9:24AM
My point is that this is how lefties look at it.
ncatty| 2.8.13 @ 3:36PM
Political considerations aside, the death of first the baby and then the mother is ..well, words escape me.
joe111| 2.10.13 @ 12:12AM
I am all for reporting Women's deaths from abortions, I am also in favor of reporting women's deaths from normal births. I am sure you will find that many more women die giving birth then die from late term abortion. I know this is an anti-abortion site, your position has a lot of merit but when you misrepresent the truth or cover up you lose credence.
spike59| 2.11.13 @ 5:40AM
when you misrepresent the truth or cover up
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funny, i fail to see TAS either misrepresenting the truth OR covering up; too bad the same can't be said about the reliably pro-abortion MSM
Tom Kyba| 2.11.13 @ 11:45AM
Remember who you're dealing with people. The media report would simply be "the woman was so depressed by the haranguing of the pro-life crowd, that she lost her desire to live".
Vance P. Frickey| 2.11.13 @ 12:56PM
If this had been ANY other elective medical procedure in which a 29-year old woman had died, the news media would have shown interest. It's fair to say that TASS, Isvestiya and Pravda had more independence from the ruling political party in the height of the Cold War than the national news media does here in America today.
The media's indifference to a young woman's death from abortion is scary. Of course, having helped sell late-term abortion to several generations of young women, perhaps the issue isn't indifference, but consciousness of guilt.