Father Kills Self In Front Of Planned Parenthood Clinic

Tradtiional Values Coalition ^ | Oct 3, 2002 | Traditional Values Coalition

[I still care]

Summary: A father who was grieving over his girlfriend’s abortion of their baby boy, stood in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kansas and killed himself on September 10.

Brad Draper, 44, shot himself in the head in front of the Overland Park, Kansas Planned Parenthood clinic on September 10. He died later in the hospital. Draper was grieving the killing of his unborn baby son by his girlfriend at the clinic.

Draper published an obituary for his boy in the local newspaper in June, 2002. In his obituary, he said: “Zachary Duncan Draper was beautiful as his mother, loved by God and others. My little baby boy didn’t make it to his Daddy’s arms. I never got to hold and kiss him, tell him stories or read him rhymes. I love you Zachary and look forward to seeing you in heaven.”

According to the family, Draper had seen ultrasounds of his son and was very excited to be a father until his girlfriend had the abortion without telling him. Family members say he killed himself on what would have been his son’s due date.

[I still care]

I know this happened over a month ago but this was just written today, so am taking the off chance it wasn't posted. I know I never saw it. Even if it was, I think it deserves a 2nd look.

[Dog Gone]

He aborted himself.

[rockprof]

Abortion is murder.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

My screenname notwithstanding, suicide is really, really, really, unquestionably dumb.

[daniel boob]

2 dead

[dd5339]

Ping

[Mr. Lucky]

Is there any sort of cross reference to the obituary or the father's suicide in the secular press?

[I still care]

This was the entire article. I don't know what the Kansas papers may have carried, if anything. Perhaps a Kansan could tell us.

[2banana]

Too bad fathers don't have any say in "choice"

[Kryptonite]

Maybe if he married the witch....

[tutstar]

bump

[MHGinTN]

In the current culture of sanctioned serial killing by/in abortuaries, the unborn are non-human to the democrat party hierarchy (heirarchy), thus they feel content to remove the parasitic invaders from the woman's body if SHE (and only she) so 'chooses'. There is no room for the father's involvement, and especially no right to life or privacy for the child about to be murdered. This is the legacy of a democrat party that diverted from sanity two and half decades ago. Now, the democrat party draws its empowerment from protecting serial killing of the unborn, the most innocent and vulnerable of our individual human brethren. What a thing! That the democrat party proudly touts 'a woman's right to choose' a serial killer to off an innocent unborn! Where/when will the American people awaken to stop this demonic obscenity?

[Windsong]

"I love you Zachary and look forward to seeing you in heaven."

People who shoot themselves in the head (ala Judas Iscariot) usually have a hard time convincing God to let them into Heaven.

[BibChr]

This is so sad.

On this, my Josiah's birthday, when I have been re-living and thanking God for Josiah's gestation and birth seven years ago today — one of the very happiest days in my life, one of the very best things EVER to happen to me, one of God's VERY best gifts to me — this tugs hard at my heart.

I think two things, though:

I'm sure some would say this very harshly. I say it too, but I hope not harshly: this man should have thought before he begot. He should not have fathered without having husbanded. In other words, get married first; then think about kids.

However, having said that...

The sad part is that legally it wouldn't have mattered. Morally, yes; legally, no. His wife could still have gone off and had his child killed.

That's the sort of thing you want to know about a woman BEFORE you marry her.

Dan
The Bible and the Bull's-Eye on the Baby

[Free State Four]

Here is the obituary from the KC Star. I took out names of the family who are still living. fsf


Brad Eugene Draper
Brad Eugene Draper, 44, of Lee's Summit, MO, passed away Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at St. Joseph Health Center, Kansas City, MO, and gave life to others by donating his organs to Mid-West Transplant Network. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, September 14, at College Church of the Nazarene, Olathe. Burial at Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens, Olathe. Visitation will be from 7-9 p.m. Friday at Memorial Chapel Funeral Home (143rd & Blackbob Rd.),Olathe. The family suggests contributions to Kansans For Life or any other Pro-Life organization. Brad was born November 29, 1957, in Shreveport, LA, the son of ----- Draper. He attended Gardner High School and graduated from BradleyBourbonnais, IL High School in 1976. He attended Olivet Nazarene University, JOCO Community College and Mid America Nazarene University where he graduated with a Business Degree. Preceding him in death was his father, Dr. Bill Draper, in 1983. Survivors include his mother, of San Marcus, CA, brother, of Phoenix, AZ, sisters, of Paradise Valley, AZ, of Bonner Springs, KS, nephew, and niece, . (Arrangements: Memorial Chapel Funeral Home,
Published in the Kansas City Star on 9/12/2002.

[Desdemona]

Ping

So sad.

[Mr. Lucky]

You kinda touch on an important point.

If abortion is homicide, (it is, by the way) then isn't the father an accessory before the fact?

[Persuasion]

My sadness for the father and his little boy is overwhelming. My anger at the woman is indescribable, but my anger toward those that continue to see this as right is even greater.

This father's grief is evidence that it is not right at all.

[shiva]

have a hard time convincing God to let them into Heaven.

Where did you hear that?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is the last resort to those who have lost all hope. It is much more tragic than dumb.