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.
You wrote:
“cast the first stone.....you’re hateful attitude is probably more despicable to God than this young woman’s actions....”
Nope. Not even close. 1) My attitude is not hateful in the least. I expressed no hate whatsoever. I merely stated the truth. If you find the truth hateful, you have a problem. 2) She murdered her baby. God hates murder. It’s one of the few sins that cries out to heaven for vengeance. In fact, there are only four or five of those. You probably have no idea of what I’m talking about.
“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...”
Exactly. Instead, she chose to MURDER her baby. I hope she repented afterward. Her whole family is culpable as well. I hope they all repent as well.
The baby was dead in her womb!
Why can’t you do the good Christian thing and say a prayer for Jeniffer, Madison and the family instead of passing judgement on something you know nothing about?
The baby wasnt dead in her womb the first day she arrived at the abortion mill
someone there killed the baby by injecting poison into the babys heart
then the female carrying the baby went to a hotel and came baby the next day
that 2nd day the female was given drugs by injection to dilate her uterus so the now murdered baby could be delivered..
Baby Madison was healthy and alive and thriving when the female carrying her arrived that first day...
Jen’s life was at risk.
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Madisons life was at risk having to have your “Jen” as the female who was carrying her...
“Jen’s” life wasnt at risk until she murdered little Madison...
Save your tears for the ignorant ...
Sandra Fluke is available...
You’re a hateful person who knows nothing about this case.
G-d forgive you.
As I stated, my friend's baby died in utero because the umbilical chord wrapped around her neck and she suffocated. My friend did not have to find an out-of-state late term abortionist, she went to the local hospital, was induced at about 33 weeks and her bay was born. They held her and cradled her for a few hours and then said goodbye. I repeat: YOU DON'T
HAVE TO GO TO AN OUT OF STATE ABORTIONIST IF YOUR BABY HAS ALREADY PASSED. And I am in NY, same state as this family.
If the baby was dead in her belly she wouldn’t have had to go to a late term abortionist to deliver. Her regular Ob/Gyn would have delivered the baby. The baby was alive until the abortionist injected poison into its heart.
MOST Ob/Gyns, having seen the baby on numerous ultrasounds and delivered LIVE babies at 33w who went on to live full productive lives are loath to perform abortions. Especially at that late a stage.
So your lovely ‘friend’ had to resort to a baby murderer to do her dirty work. And now she’s dead too.
Sometimes your purpose in life is to serve as a warning for others. This ‘mother’ (I am loath to use the term without quotes) seems to have been a popular well known young woman. Hopefully her fate will warn others who think of ending a human life for the sole ‘sin’ of being physically imperfect.
So this is what you were told. In addition to my previous post, if a baby has passed and this presents a threat to the mother, immediate surgery or induction is done by the women’s own OB/GYN. You don’t take the time to rush out of state to one of the only few late term abortion doctors who injects the babies heart to kill it and then sends you to a hotel to wait for death to occur. The only reason to head back to the hotel was to wait for the death of the child. So no, I don’t believe you, you’re being fed a line.
Dear Melissa 24,
Your statement that suggests that the baby had already died before the mother visited the abortion mill doesn’t jibe with how these things ordinarily go.
There are hospitals in NY, and doctors, too. If the child had already died, doctors in NY would have known how to handle this. One doesn’t need to travel 200+ miles to a notorious baby murderer to receive appropriate medical treatment for a case like that.
I have a friend whose baby died pre-term. She did not visit a baby butcher to resolve the situation. Rather, she worked with her obgyn, went to term and then delivered normally.
It seems more likely that this woman’s baby was alive when they visited the baby butcher, and then she paid the killer to murder her baby.
sitetest
Dear Melissa 24,
Your statement that suggests that the baby had already died before the mother visited the abortion mill doesn’t jibe with how these things ordinarily go.
There are hospitals in NY, and doctors, too. If the child had already died, doctors in NY would have known how to handle this. One doesn’t need to travel 200+ miles to a notorious baby murderer to receive appropriate medical treatment for a case like that.
I have a friend whose baby died pre-term. She did not visit a baby butcher to resolve the situation. Rather, she worked with her obgyn, went to term and then delivered normally.
It seems more likely that this woman’s baby was alive when they visited the baby butcher, and then she paid the killer to murder her baby.
sitetest
Apologies for the double post.
There’s a lady in our church who lost a baby in late 3rd trimester. She had an undiagnosed clotting disorder and for some reason the placenta picked about 35w to shut down. One day she felt the baby move, and never again after that. She was induced by her OB and delivered the baby in a regular hospital.
I can NOT imagine killing a baby that you’ve felt move in your belly for at least 5m.
I can NOT imagine killing a baby you’ve already named.
Evil doesn’t begin to cover it.
Late term abortionists don’t get paid big bucks for nothing. It takes a special kind of evil and crazy to inject a beating heart and kill it. Even more special evil and crazy to do that to a helpless infant in its mothers womb.
I wonder now if the whole ‘it was already dead’ is a meme being put forth by her family and close friends to cover up what she actually did.
Honey Im going to forgive you because you dont understand whats happened to your friend...
God is not happy with “Jen” but I doubt if He is upset that Im telling you the truth...
the only hateful one is your “Jen”
she hated Madison to the point that she had the baby murdered...
Theres nothing loving or kind about abortion, putting your baby put down like shes a dog..
The article doesnt say that Madison was dead...
Madison was alive and well...
and not determined to have any birth defects, just the possibity..
IF she had died the doctor would have sent Jen to a hospital immediately where Madison’s dead body would have been delivered normally or probably by C-Section..
You dont walk around for a week with a dead decomposing baby inside you like Jen walked the street outside the abortion mill/slaughter house...
Women with dead babies inside them go to a nice clean sterile hospital not a filthy abortion mill...
Abortion mills are for live babies to be murdered, which is what happened to little Madison...
Jen got a bad report about Madison and instead of giving birth to the baby she decided to kill her...
Since she didnt want madison Jen could have had a C-Section and then given her up for adoption...
Only Jen and God know why she decided to take such a terrible step but dont make her out as a heroine to me...
or me a monster..
No woman goes to an abortion mill if her baby is already dead...
Thats just a nice story the family put out to save face..
Jen had to go back several times to the abortion mill...
that first time was to have poor little Madison killed...
Madison is the only victiom in this travesty...
What sort of monster can carry a child for 8+ months, bond with her, name her, plan a nursery for her, and then kill her because she’s not perfect?
I’m sick over this. And it happens every day in our country.
I imagine the “already dead baby” story is what they are telling their friends and family. Can you even imagine the shame and guilt they are experiencing. I looked at the mom’s Pinterest board and she apparently was a lovely woman who liked beautiful things and loved her family and friends. It is just so tragic that someone counseled her to choose this path or she decided that it was the best solution. I am studying Genesis in Bible study and it is amazing how often even Godly people choose to ignore God’s clear guidance. Prayers for God to work on the hearts of the family and friends.
Late term fetal death isn’t, unfortunately, a terribly uncommon event. Hopefully there are those in the family’s circle of friends that will call BS on that excuse.
There’s only one reason you pay big bucks to a late term abortionist. And it’s not to deliver an already dead baby or end up with a live one.
Any OB can deliver a dead baby. Sadly they do that more often than they like. The late term abortionist gets paid to inject that already beating heart with poison. And nothing more. There’s a reason late term abortionists are rich as Croesus.
Abortionists. Kill. Babies.
Dead.
Sometimes they kill the ‘mother’ as well.
As it turns out, women in this particular woman’s age group are killing their unborn children for something as simple as a cleft palate or club foot. The thought of bearing an imperfect child in a world that increasingly only values physically perfect people is too much for these weak minded woman. So they get rid of the imperfect baby and try again.
Except when they die trying to get rid of the imperfect baby.
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