{"id":252934,"date":"2021-09-09T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252934"},"modified":"2021-09-08T22:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T03:30:07","slug":"police-investigating-infant-abortion-advocates-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/police-investigating-infant-abortion-advocates-furious\/","title":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a possible infant murder, and abortion advocates are furious"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police in Travis County, Texas, are investigating after discovering the body of an infant found in a shallow grave. While any time a body is found, it seems like common sense to investigate the circumstances \u2014 however, abortion advocates are furious. They claim that trying to find the baby’s mother is a ploy by police to somehow criminalize pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Last month, a fisherman found the body of a baby girl who was abandoned in a wooded area<\/a>, naked but wrapped in plastic. Police estimated she had been there for at least several days. “The baby wasn’t buried. She was discarded, thrown away,” Homicide Sgt. Sylvia Leal said in a statement<\/a>. “The body was left in the woods, lying in a very shallow depression. It’s a miracle she was found so soon after being left. I believe we are meant to find the answers she deserves.”<\/p>\n

In a statement released by the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, it was revealed that crime scene technicians decided to name the little girl. “Stricken by the disregard shown to the newborn, detectives are determined to find out what happened,” the statement said. “They\u2019re also determined to give the baby dignity, starting with a name, Ivy.”<\/p>\n

Detective Ben Wright told the Austin-American Statesman that it still isn’t clear exactly how Ivy died, though an autopsy was conducted on August 25th, of which results are still pending. \u201cSo far, the autopsy results haven\u2019t revealed if Ivy was born alive or not,” Wright said. “She could have been still-born and the mother panicked. She could also have been a live birth, then discarded.”<\/p>\n

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He also added that they aren’t immediately jumping to the conclusion that the child’s mother killed her. “But it\u2019s also possible this was a case of abuse, covered up by someone involved,” Wright said. “We\u2019re concerned for the mother\u2019s safety and are trying to find her.\u201d<\/p>\n

This would seem to be an inoffensive investigation: a body was found, and police need to find out who was involved and what happened. Yet for abortion advocates, this is apparently infuriating \u2014 not only do they find it outrageous to treat a deceased infant as an actual human being \u2014 but they believe holding a potential murderer accountable could somehow make pregnancy dangerous in Texas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Andrea Grimes, a pro-abortion journalist living in Texas, sent out an angry thread of tweets<\/a> slamming the investigation. “…[C]ops have no f***ing business in whatever is going on here \u2014 this is pregnancy criminalization in action,” she wrote, adding, “Criminalizing pregnancy \u2014 which is what happens when cops are the \u2018officials\u2019 running this situation \u2014 does not improve public health or make reproductive care safer. This story will make the next person who needs help (rightly) afraid to seek it.”<\/p>\n

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There are a whole bunch of reasons why someone may have lost a pregnancy or experienced stillbirth and zero of them need to involve the police, who are absolutely not here to just find out a few details<\/p>\n

they are trying to make an arrest, or bring some charges<\/p>\n

— andrea grimes (@andreagrimes) September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n