Guilty of Feticide–Where’s the News In That? It Happens Every Day!

An Indiana woman has been charged in connection with the death of her 25-week-old unborn baby; and frankly, I’m puzzled.  Doesn’t that happen every day, in cities across the United States?

Purvi Patel, an Indiana resident, was found guilty February  3 of felony child neglect and feticide, after she ended her pregnancy last July by taking an abortion drug, then discarded the child’s body in a dumpster.  LifeNews has the story:

Patel was arrested last July after she took abortion pills to kill her baby and she later admitted to police that she had placed the newborn in a dumpster behind a local restaurant, which her family owns. The infant was dead at the time the baby was found.

According to a court affidavit released on to WSBT, a South Bend police investigator said Patel went to the emergency room at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center on July 13. Doctors there believed she had recently delivered a child. The investigator said Patel denied giving birth. She was then taken to the maternity floor for further diagnosis and treatment.

The officer said Patel eventually told medical staff she had delivered a baby in her Granger home and that she did not see the child breathing or moving and believed it was dead. Patel then told doctors she put the baby’s body in a bag and placed the baby in a trash bin behind the Super Target in Mishawaka.

The jury deliberated for five hours before finding Patel guilty as charged.  She left the courthouse in handcuffs, and her bond was increased to $200,000 because she is considered a flight risk.

The prosecutor, Mark Roule, said,

“These are difficult days, difficult for the jury, difficult all around.”

Television station WNDU reported:

It was a child that prosecutors said got not a second of comfort or warmth from its mother, and didn’t even get a name.

Patel stands to spend as much as 70 years in prison:  50 years for child neglect, and 20 years for feticide.

You would think, from listening to the testimony in this particular case, that they were talking about a baby.

Oh, wait…. they were.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, there are 11,000 late-term abortions in the United States every year.  Pray for an end to abortion.