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Proving that there are still states which take babies’ deaths\u00a0more seriously than Colorado<\/a>, on Monday, an Indiana judge\u00a0sentenced Purvi Patel to 20 years<\/a>\u00a0in prison for attempting to kill her\u00a0viable, 25 to 30-week-old<\/a>\u00a0son with abortion pills she got off the Internet, then wrapping him in a bag and abandoning him to die in a dumpster when he came out alive.<\/p>\n

And yet, in response to this nightmarish display of inhumanity, the abortiosphere has recast its perpetrator in the role of victim.<\/p>\n

Writers at all the usual haunts contend that Patel has been persecuted for nothing more than suffering a miscarriage.\u00a0For example, here’s how Bustle’s Lauren Barbato\u00a0spins the evidence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[T]he affidavit claims a forensic pathologist, Dr. Joseph Prahlow, determined the baby was alive at birth. Police officers who searched her cell phone also alleged that Patel took abortion-inducing drugs, which she ordered online, because of text messages she sent to a friend. The messages stated she ordered the drugs from Hong Kong, and that she was more than 60 days pregnant.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

There was very little conclusive evidence these claims, which were greatly disputed during her trial. Doctors who testified for the defense said Patel did not have remnants of abortion-inducing drugs in her blood work when she arrived at the hospital following the stillbirth. The toxicologist also failed to find evidence of those drugs in the blood of the fetus. And as Patel\u2019s lawyers pointed out, just because she texted her friend about the abortion-inducing drugs\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0mean she took them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Members of the Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice who attended Patel\u2019s trial also reported the prosecution\u00a0used a discredited \u201clung float test\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to prove that the baby was birthed alive and took at least one breath. The test has largely been debunked by contemporary scientists.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Though initially sounding like enough to establish reasonable doubt, scratching the surface makes clear why it didn’t fly with the jury.<\/p>\n

First, Barbato’s characterization of toxicologist Prentiss Jones’s testimony is deeply misleading. The wording implies a confident judgment that the drugs were never there, but\u00a0what Jones actually said<\/a>\u00a0was that “he wasn’t aware of any standardized tests for the drugs or their metabolized remnants in blood at the time.” So while it may have been scientifically unknowable\u2014which is very different from saying one\u00a0does\u00a0<\/em>know Patel\u00a0didn’t\u00a0<\/em>take them\u2014the rest of the evidence is more than enough to resolve ambiguity on this point.<\/p>\n

Police\u00a0found emails and texts confirming<\/a>\u00a0that Patel searched for the drugs in question, then identified and contacted a Chinese website which offers them without a prescription. They\u00a0also found texts<\/a>\u00a0to a friend confirming she received the pills and took them for the express purpose of eliminating her son:<\/p>\n

According to text messages, the pills arrived at Moe\u2019s Southwest Grill in Mishawaka \u2013 a restaurant Patel\u2019s family owns \u2013 in early July. But Patel waited to take those pills until July 10, continuing to provide a detailed account of her situation to her friend, Herring told the jury.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBTW, these pills taste like sh**. If these pills don\u2019t work\u2026I\u2019m gonna be mad,\u201d the text messages allegedly said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then on July 13, Patel text messaged her friend, \u201cJust lost the baby. I\u2019m gonna clean up the bathroom and then go to Moe\u2019s.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Gee, sounds just a tad more specific than the impression Barbato leaves us with, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Apologists make much of the fact that the pills’ packaging was never found, but conveniently omit that the restaurant\u2014y’know, the place where the suspect said she received them\u2014was\u00a0never searched for evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So to recap: we know that Patel (a) wanted to abort her baby, (b) searched for illicit abortion pills, (c) found and contacted somebody willing to sell them to her, (d) claimed she received them, (e) claimed she took them, (f) hoped they worked, and (g) got the result she wanted. (We also know she\u00a0repeatedly lied to emergency room doctors<\/a>\u00a0about having been pregnant.)<\/p>\n

But we’re not supposed to draw the obvious conclusion from these incontrovertible facts that clearly show a direct progression from intent to action to outcome?\u00a0It’s called\u00a0reasonable\u00a0<\/em>doubt, not “straining-wishful-thinking-beyond-all-credulity” doubt.<\/p>\n

Next, she suggests this poor child died before birth, rather than suffocating in a bag (never mind that the former outcome, having been willfully and artificially induced, still wouldn’t be miscarriage). But let’s take a closer look at the\u00a0article she links<\/a>\u00a0on the lung float test’s unreliability. In it,\u00a0Slate’s<\/em>\u00a0Leon Neyfakh\u00a0provides the following summary of the test’s shortcomings:<\/p>\n

The first is easiest to understand: If any attempt at resuscitation was made, either through mouth-to-mouth or chest compressions, that can introduce air into a lung, thus causing it to float even if the fetus was stillborn. The second has to do with decomposition: If the fetus has decomposed even a little bit, the lungs can fill with gas bubbles that would also result in the lung floating. Finally, Davis said, a fetus\u2019s lungs can fill with air just by going through the vaginal canal, because pressure on the chest creates a \u201cbellows effect.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However, Neyfakh also reports that Prahlow’s full investigation took into account the limitations of the test\u00a0(which\u00a0a 2012 study<\/a>\u00a0 found reliable in 98 percent of cases),\u00a0and compensated for them:<\/p>\n

Prahlow supplemented the evidence from the float test with other findings, testifying that the lungs looked full of air when he removed the fetus\u2019s chest plate during the autopsy, that the air sacs in the lung tissue looked expanded when he looked at them under a microscope, and that the weight of the lungs\u2014approximately 21 grams\u2014was consistent with a live birth. Prahlow also testified that, according to his analysis, blood had started flowing to the lungs, which would have only happened after the baby had taken a breath.<\/em><\/p>\n

As for the claim that she tried resuscitating her son, Prahlow “testified that Patel\u2019s resuscitation attempts, as she described them, were so minimal that they\u00a0wouldn’t\u00a0have had any effect on the baby\u2019s lungs.” Besides, the idea\u00a0that she’d suddenly try to save her victim after planning to kill him for months simply doesn’t pass the laugh test, especially considering she already lied more than once about what happened.<\/p>\n

Aside from the particulars of the case, pro-aborts also see this as a golden opportunity to push the meme that pro-lifers are secretly clamoring to throw post-abortive women in jail. At\u00a0The Nation<\/em>, Michelle<\/a>\u00a0Goldberg<\/a>\u00a0cites\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0written by yours truly:<\/p>\n

The author, Calvin Freiburger, argues that pro-choice concerns about jailing women are a red herring, and that the anti-abortion movement has \u201clargely reached consensus that punishment for abortion should rest predominantly with the one who performs the act: the abortionist.\u201d Eventually, he allows, once pro-choice \u201cindoctrination\u201d has been uprooted so that the evil of abortion is more widely understood, \u201ca future generation might decide that abortion-seeking women should be presumed to fully understand what they\u2019re destroying, and they may choose to punish them accordingly. But that\u2019s not where we are today. Pro-lifers recognize how the abortion movement victimizes mother and child alike, so we\u2019re dedicated to saving both.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, Patel, whose conviction will certainly be appealed, could use some saving. If this\u00a0isn’t\u00a0how the promoters of feticide laws intended\u00a0them to be used, now would be a good time for them to say so.<\/em><\/p>\n

No, I’m not interested in arresting women who have abortions (neither is the rest of the pro-life movement<\/a>). But what happened here wasn’t just an abortion.<\/p>\n

As Judge Elizabeth Hurley\u00a0noted<\/a>, the\u00a033-year-old<\/a>\u00a0Patel is “an educated woman of considerable means,” and “if [she] wished to terminate [her] pregnancy safely and legally, [she] could have done so.”\u00a0Instead, she\u00a0repeatedly rejected<\/a>\u00a0a friend’s insistence that she see a doctor,\u00a0simply because she\u00a0didn’t want her traditional Hindu parents<\/a>\u00a0to know she’d had sex with a married co-worker. She didn’t get a doctor to do it, but killed her son herself.<\/p>\n

Her son who\u00a0was viable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her son\u00a0who had<\/a>\u00a0“a full head of hair, ears, a nose, arms, legs and feet,” who “was an otherwise normal, healthy appearing baby” likely to have “exhibit[ed] signs of life when it was born, such as movement and possibly crying.”<\/p>\n

Her son who she then left to die.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Patel herself recognized he was no mere “evacuated tissue” when\u00a0she coldly updated her friend<\/a>, “Just lost the baby. I\u2019m gonna clean up the bathroom and then go to Moe\u2019s.”<\/p>\n

Granted, the line between legal abortion and criminal feticide isn’t a bright one. Both kill a child whose existence is disagreeable to someone. But someone who seeks out an abortionist at least has the excuse that a professional the law says she can trust\u00a0lied to her<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0withheld key information<\/a>\u00a0about what abortion really was.<\/p>\n

More importantly, the fact that society’s fallen so far that we must entertain these compromises in the first place, where we’re\u00a0splitting hairs over different gradations of killing children<\/em>, is the point. Witness Tara Culp-Ressler’s\u00a0contribution to this spectacle<\/a>\u00a0in ThinkProgress, where she laments the “knee-jerk” reaction to Patel’s demeanor:<\/p>\n

It disturbs a lot of people that she chose to place the fetus in a dumpster. Her nurses were surprised that she\u00a0wasn’t<\/em>\u00a0displaying more emotion at the hospital, and wondered why she was spending so much time on her phone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ultimately, Patel\u00a0didn’t<\/em>\u00a0fit other people\u2019s ideas of how a proper grieving mother should behave[.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Read that again. This is the moral freakshow that abortionism is turning us into: a world where noticing a blatant lack of basic human empathy is intolerable, but literally throwing away our young like garbage isn’t. A world where no standard is universal except the illegitimacy of standards.\u00a0A world where where polite society is more “frightened” by\u00a0judging\u00a0<\/em>evil than by evil itself.<\/p>\n

That’s what’s at stake here. That’s where prosecutors in Indiana drew the line. The more acclimated we become to ignoring others’ humanity, the more we cheapen our own.<\/p>\n

Wake up, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proving that there are still states which take babies’ deaths\u00a0more seriously than Colorado, on Monday, an Indiana judge\u00a0sentenced Purvi Patel to 20 years\u00a0in prison for attempting to kill her\u00a0viable, 25 to 30-week-old\u00a0son with abortion pills she got off the Internet, then wrapping him in a bag and abandoning him to die in a dumpster when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":51775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[3506,3510,69,3508,543,70,3512,1162,3505,3500,3502,3511,679,3504,3021,3509,2690,1173,371,3501,3503,3499,3507,1899,686],"yoast_head":"\nDeath, lies, and relativism in the Purvi Patel feticide conviction - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/death-lies-relativism-purvi-patel-feticide-conviction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Death, lies, and relativism in the Purvi Patel feticide conviction - 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