Becky Bell
Ramon Kiré
Becky Bell. It's just another example showing that pro-abortionists lie to
further their agenda.
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Becky Bell was a 17-year old Indiana girl who reportedly died of an
illegal abortion on September 16, 1988. "Pro-choice" and Feminist
organizations, especially Planned Parenthood and Eleanor Smeal's "Feminist
Majority Fund," immediately seized on Becky Bell's death and stated as
fact that it was directly caused by Indiana's parental consent laws. They
dubbed Becky the "first known victim of parental consent laws" and
launched massive media campaign and enlisted her parents to hit the talk
show and lecture circuit to denounce parental notification and consent
laws all over the country - the law that they claimed "caused Becky's
death." As Ms. Magazine put it, "She Died Because of a Law." [1]
This received a lot of media attention for awhile, until the National
Right to Life Committee got a copy of the post-mortem report, which showed
no sign of either induced abortion or infection in or near the
reproductive organs. What the report did show was that Becky Bell died of
a deadly and fast-acting form of pneumonia, similar to that which killed
Muppets creator Jim Henson, which had neither originated in nor had
affected the reproductive system. She had contracted this especially
lethal form of pneumonia at about the same time that she had a
miscarriage.
Shortly after NRLC started distributing copies of the autopsy report and
calling for a review of the coroner's report concluding the death was a
result of a "septic abortion" (which the post-mortem contradicted), Mr.
and Mrs. Bell dropped out of sight and Eleanor Smeal never said another
word about it.
Less than six months after Becky Bell's death, Erica Richardson, a
Maryland sixteen-year-old, died from a legal abortion. [6] Erica underwent
the abortion without her parents' knowledge or consent. Where is NARAL's
outrage at Erica's death? Perhaps there is none because her death did not
further their pro-choice agenda.
It is a tragedy that Becky Bell died, but is also a tragedy when
the pro-choice movement purposely lies and exploits her death to further
their own agenda.
NOTES
1. Rochelle Sharp, "She Died Because of a Law," Ms., July/August
1990, 80-81.
2. Dave Andrusko. "They Have No Shame!" National Right to Life
News, August 16, 1990.
3. Joe Frolik. Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 9, 1990, page 1.
4. Bernard Nathanson, M.D. "In Memoriam: The Becky Bell Story."
Bernadell Technical Bulletin, November 1990, pages 4 and 5.
5. Dave Andrusko. "They Have No Shame!" National Right to Life News
, August 16, 1990.
6. James A. Miller. "A Tale of Two Abortions," Human Life
International Reports, March 1991, 14.
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Information compiled by Carolyn C. Gargaro. The full text is on
http://www.gargaro.com/beckybell.html
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(Submitted by Ramon)
"I'm forever unwrapping the eternal present".
M is for Malapert
>Here's an extract from Carolyn Gargaro's website, from the story about
>Becky Bell.
Here is an extract from KAREN BELL'S account of the death of HER
CHILD, Becky Bell. You can find the whole story at
http://www.ms4c.org:80/bell.shtml
The coroner performed an autopsy
and called us. "Your Rebecca
Suzanne died from an illegal, botched
abortion; dirty instruments had been
used." And Bill said "No, no, not
Beck." I said, "No, no, no, not my
Becky. Oh my God, not Beck."
I told Bill that I did not want people
talking about Becky. We grew up in a
small community. Everybody idolized
us. We were the perfect couple -- the
perfect family. I didn't want people to
call her a whore. We agreed to say
that Beck died of pneumonia. It
wasn't a lie. The death certificate
listed the cause of death as septic
abortion with pneumonia.
Right before the funeral, the minister
came over and knelt down in front of
us. He said, "Why don't you tell the
truth so you can hold your head up in
the community? You can help other
people. You can help yourself and
avoid living a lie." I thought the truth
would come out someday and so we
agreed.
At the funeral, the minister said that
Becky had been pregnant and had
died as a result. I bowed my head. I
couldn't look at anybody.
>It's just another example showing that pro-abortionists lie to
>further their agenda.
And now everyone knows that what you posted is another example of how
PIGs lie to further their hateful, death-dealing agenda.
Veronica
Ramon Kiré wrote in message ...
>Here's an extract from Carolyn Gargaro's website, from the story about
>further their agenda.
You can occasionally hear the Bells on some late night talk shows, phoning in
their opinions. Phone-ins avoid those questions about the autopsy report that
they really have no answers for. Better keep an eye on the situation though,
this 10 year old story seems to be making the rounds again, perhaps in response
to recent court and congressional decisions regarding parental rights. Veronica
"You see, this is the Army, not a sorority house".
From Private Benjamin
Chris Chevalier de XENU Lyman
# And now everyone knows that what you posted is another example
# of how PIGs lie to further their hateful, death-dealing agenda.
"Pro-life" hatred knows no lower limit. A "pro-life" woman
approached Mr. and Mrs. Bell and offered her condolences over
the death of their *grandchild*.
--
Chris Lyman; SP4, KoX
Send email to chris-dot-lyman-atsign-pclink-dot-com.
"Give a man a fish and he'll ask for a lemon. Teach
a man to fish and he'll leave work early on Fridays."
Osmo Ronkanen
M is for Malapert <minxs@so_amspayonay_nic.net> wrote:
>
>Here is an extract from KAREN BELL'S account of the death of HER
>CHILD, Becky Bell. You can find the whole story at
>http://www.ms4c.org:80/bell.shtml
I think one needs to quote also this part:
Bill and I decided to speak out; we thought we could prevent other
girls from dying. We appeared on 60 Minutes. The anti-choice crowd
came after us. They followed us. There would be crowds of people with
their fetuses in a bottle, and some would say that Becky didn't die
the way we said she did. They loosened the lug nuts on our car. In
Arkansas, they shot a hole in the building where we were speaking.
They cared more about a fetus than about my daughter. I thought, "I'm
not afraid of anybody, because my daughter is dead and you can't hurt
me anymore."
"pro-lifers"???
Osmo