botched in-utero murder is more like it...
Posted on 02/10/2013 6:00:07 PM PST by Morgana
The woman who died and was a victim of a botched 33-week abortion has been identified as 29-year-old Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, of New Rochelle, New York.
A report from pro-life blogger Jill Stanek says two sources confirmed the identity of the victim. Morbilli died Thursday as the result of fatal complications suffered during an abortion at 33 weeks at the hand of late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart. The abortion took place at the Germantown Reproductive Health Center in Germantown, Maryland.
“Carhart’s alleged victims were 29-year-old Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, pictured right, and her 33-week-old preborn daughter, Madison Leigh,” Stanek reports. “I have confirmed the identities of the victims through two sources. After a name ID was received from an impeccable informant, sidewalk counselors at the abortion clinic positively identified Jennifer’s obituary photo. Jennifer’s obituary also states she “passed away suddenly.”
“Jennifer was married and a kindergarten teacher at Church Street Elementary School in White Plains, New York. Jennifer was carrying a wanted baby. At present her registry is still online,” Stanek added. “Approximately two weeks ago Jennifer learned her daughter suffered from fetal anomalies. Jennifer, her husband, her parents, and her sister traveled to Carhart’s late-term Germantown Reproductive Health Services abortion clinic in Germantown, Maryland.”
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 yesterday, 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.
Stanek, in her report, provides more details on the timeline of the events that led to Morbelli’s death.
They 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.
According to those counselors, 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 presumably spent each night at a nearby hotel, as is the usual process for a multi-day, late-term abortion at Carhart’s Germantown clinic.
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.
Each day sidewalk counselors noted in real-time annotations that Jennifer appeared more and more pale.
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.
At approximately 5:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 7, Jennifer presented at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, which is almost nine miles from Carhart’s clinic.
Family members told hospital personnel they had tried to call Carhart several times, but he did not return their calls.
At approximately 9:00 a.m. Jennifer coded. She coded a total of six times before she was pronounced dead at about 10:00 a.m.
It was during this time Carhart called the hospital. He never showed up.
The obituary for Jennifer reads:
Jennifer was born in New Rochelle to Kevin and Lisa McKenna. She graduated from New Rochelle High School and then went on to attend the University of Delaware where she met her college sweet heart TJ, whom she married in 2009. She was a kindergarten teacher at Preschool Learning Center in New Rochelle and then went on to teach at Church Street Elementary in White Plains. She will always be remembered for living everyday to the fullest with a smile on her face. Jennifer was loved by all who were fortunate enough to meet her. Besides her adoring parents, she is survived by her husband TJ who was the love of her life, Her cherished brother Kevin and sister Kristin, her grandmother Helen McKenna and Uncle’s Mark and Carl Benevento. She also leaves behind her loving God parents Susan & Roy Porto, in-laws Mario and Kathy Morbelli and many other aunts, uncles and cousins. Visitation will be held on Monday evening from 7-9pm and Tuesday from 2-4pm and 7-9pm. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday 10am at Holy Name of Jesus in New Rochelle. Jennifer and her baby girl Madison will be interred at Greenwood Union Cemetery in Rye. In Lieu of flowers donations may be made in memory of Jennifer and Madison to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 800-805-5856.
“The avoidable death of this young woman dramatically illustrates the dangers of third trimester abortions that are done outside of the safety of obstetrical standards,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-life Nation.
Newman told LifeNews, “In 2005, Carhart was also involved in the death of Christin Gilbert, who died after a third trimester abortion in Wichita, Kansas. It is time for medical boards to put an end to these horrifically dangerous and barbaric third trimester abortions. If they do not, we can only expect Carhart and his associates to send more women to the morgue.”
The Maryland Medical Examiner spent a significant amount of time reviewing the case and the records at the hospital on Thursday, and determined the case needed further investigation due to the unusual circumstances of her death, according to information provided to LifeNews.
“It is so tragic that this family had to lose not only their nearly full-term child, but also their wife, daughter, and sister,” said Michael Martelli, Executive Director of the Maryland Coalition for Life. “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.”
On the very same day that this woman died, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene posted on their website that they issued a license to Carhart’s clinic to perform abortions — without a single inspection of the facility, Martelli said.
“He already killed Christin Gilbert in Kansas in 2005, and now another senseless tragedy has come as a result of Carhart’s so-called women’s healthcare and the apathy of the pro-abortion Maryland State Government,” said Martelli.
Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, also responded to the abortion death.
“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,” he told LifeNews. “That has to change today.”
A prayer vigil, memorial, and follow-up press conference will be held in Germantown at 9 a.m. on Monday, February 11, just next to the office park where Carhart conducted the third trimester abortion.
botched in-utero murder is more like it...
am I the only one who finds this sick and repulsive ???No, you're not the only one. And I find it very upsetting that mothers who die during abortions (and this child was hardly wanted) are being used for the pro-life cause, because life comes from Jesus, but abortion only comes from the devil.
SHE was the victim? I don’t think so.
She died while killing a baby- and she was a victim??? And now the family takes refuge in Jesus’ name? Where were they to teach her not to sacrifice her child? My four year old knows not to kill others, that the baby in a mommy’s tummy is a child, and to never ever sacrifice her OWN child.
People are so sick and deranged to think they can screw around and screw around and THEN pretend that Jesus doesn’t mind at all.
Did they repent? DO they mourn the death of the child? Or only mourn the death of the child who was lucky enough to make it out of the womb?
You commit a mortal sin, and you get a Catholic funeral? This is so disgusting, I don’t have words.
What is with reporting that calls it 33 weeks. She was 8 months pregnant.
Baal would be / is proud!
Baby murderers shouldn’t get Catholic funeral Masses.I suppose she could have asked forgiveness before she died, but if not, she excommunicated herself by procuring an abortion.
Q. 1. Does the Catechism of the Catholic Church teach us anything about how a Catholic can be forgiven of the sin of abortion?More at the link.
# 2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," [CIC, can. 1398] "by the very commission of the offense," [CIC, can. 1314] and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. [Cf. CIC, cann. 1323-1324] The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. [1463] ...
Q. 2. What does that mean in simple English?
A. 2. It means that anyone who has an abortion, participates in an abortion, or supports an abortion, he or she, by the previously mentioned actions, is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. (C.C.C. # 2273)
Thanks Morgana.
An atrocity on all levels!! This story leaves me sick and disgusted (I am writing this through a mother’s tears for that poor baby).
Even if she didn’t want the baby there are those out there who would have gladly taken her, damaged or not.
It’s a sick sick sick society that allows this.
“....am I the only one who finds this sick and repulsive ???”
It’s very peculiar.
I trust pro-lifers, but clearly there is some inside info being revealed here. I really have no comment on that, and I don’t doubt it, but it may not be general knowledge to this woman’s friends and even family.
But this is not uncommon, these women are told they are killing their children out of love, or some such messed up lie.
Well I’m going to shut up now, before I go on a full fledged rant.
however, as horrible as it was going to be, it would have been better for this young woman with the support of her husband and her family to carry this baby to her birth, and then letting nature take its course...if the anomalies were that great, the baby would not have survived that long and there would be decent closure...
I just had a Catholic funeral mass for my mother. The Priest mentioned how she was now at peace and was in no more pain from all of her illnesses. If this Priest is honest, is he going to mention how she died killing her baby? Is he going to mention how Madison was murdered by her mother?
At 33 weeks she should have had a Caesarian and put the baby up for adoption. They could have done it under anesthesia and she could be done with the baby and not even have to see it if that was her sick decision. I have a friend who's baby suffocated and died in utero and when she found this out literally went crazy and had to deliver her daughter deceased. And this woman was walking around hanging out at a hotel during “stages” of the abortion? Did I read that right? Also have a friend who was told the baby likely had Down’s Syndrome, but would never consider abortion. Her baby was born just fine, and she was shocked the doctor had kept telling her to abort her “more then likely” down syndrome baby. Also have a cousin with a Down’s child. sweetest kid of the bunch!
You can actually still view the baby registry and the little stuffed bunny and lamb made me cry.
This occurred in a Maryland suburb of DC and the local CBS affiliate actually reported it tonight after the Grammys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoy_Carhart
“LeRoy Harrison Carhart (born 1941) is an American physician from Nebraska who became well known for his participation in the Supreme Court cases Stenberg v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Carhart, both of which dealt with intact dilation and extraction (colloquially known as partial birth abortion), a controversial abortion procedure.”
Apparently, this guy has had quite a history...all bad.
I wonder if that NY newspaper wouldn’t mind printing the names and addresses of those who’ve had abortions? Since they seem to keen on “public disclosure”—being all enlightened and such...
A Catholic priest was with her when she died. It should be the prayer of Catholics that she repented of this sin before she died and was able to make a good confession. She certainly had plenty of warning—this didn’t happen in a matter of seconds.
Sidewalk counselors warned her repeatedly about the dangers of this procedure as she went into and out of the abortuary.
A Catholic priest was with her when she died. It should be the prayer of Catholics that she repented of this sin before she died and was able to make a good confession...Thank you for this information...
A Catholic priest was with her when she died. It should be the prayer of Catholics that she repented of this sin before she died and was able to make a good confession...Thank you for this information...
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