Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion

Well, the lack of personhood attributed to an unborn child has caused the court not to hear this case. I am baffeled at how they can still deny personhood when other cases where murder is concerned charge the killer with two deaths, or even how they can get away with it after the pictures we see now of the baby ion the womb…our society is really in deep denial…like many of us who have aborted their children, they just cannot look at what they have done…

Court Denies Wrongful Death Claim in N. J. Abortion Case 
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday also declined hearing a wrongful death claim that is part of a New Jersey abortion case, the Newark Star-Ledger reports (Coscarelli, Newark Star-Ledger,
10/2).The New Jersey Supreme Court last month unanimously ruled that
physicians are not required to inform women seeking abortions that the
procedure would result in "killing an existing human being." The court
in July 2006 agreed to hear the appeal of a decision that a jury can
consider whether a doctor gave adequate medical information to a woman
who claims she was unable to give informed consent to undergo an
abortion.

According to court papers, physician Sheldon Turkish
in 1996 told Rosa Acuna, who was eight weeks pregnant, that she had to
undergo an "immediate abortion" because her pregnancy was causing
damage to her kidneys. Acuna charges that Turkish "incorrectly told
[her] … that she was not aborting a human life" when she underwent
the procedure, adding that she has experienced psychological trauma,
including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosexual
dysfunction, as a result of the abortion.

A trial judge
previously had dismissed the case, stating that the U.S. Supreme Court
has ruled that a "fetus is not a person," but an appellate court ruled
that Acuna could sue for damages involving "a question of medical
malpractice." A three-judge panel of the Appellate Division of the New
Jersey Superior Court in April dismissed the wrongful death claim in
the lawsuit but wrote that a jury could decide "[w]hat medical
information is material and must be disclosed by an obstetrician when
advising a patient to terminate a pregnancy and what medical
information is material when the patient asks if the ‘baby’ is already
there." Justice Barry Albin in the state Supreme Court’s opinion wrote
that it is established that a doctor must provide women information
about the medical risks of undergoing an abortion; however, there is no
requirement for a doctor to go further (Kaiser Daily Women’s Health Policy Report, 9/13).

The
U.S. Supreme Court on Monday offered no reason why the justices denied
hearing the case. Attorneys involved in the lawsuit said the New Jersey
Supreme Court has not decided if it will rehear the case (Newark Star-Ledger, 10/2).  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/84359.php