September 29, 2010
7 Reasons Why Pregnancy Becomes a Deadly Affair
courtesy of www.herbs-hands.co.uk
The gruesome 1968 murder of actress Sharon Tate two weeks before her due date was a prelude of things to come and it was the unsettling death of Laci Peterson that pushed the plight of murdered pregnant women into the spotlight.
Laci Peterson disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002 and her husband, Scott, was later convicted of murder in the first degree after her mutilated body was washed to shore along with her infant son eight months after her disappearance. After Laci’s death The Washington Post reported that 1,367 pregnant women were murdered from 1990 to 2004. These numbers only reflect a small portion of murdered pregnant women because there is no mechanism in place to track these statistics.
Studies show that physical abuse occurs in 7 to 20 percent of pregnant women, sometimes leading to death from homicide. Women with an unplanned pregnancy have a 3-fold higher risk of physical abuse than planned pregnancies. African American pregnant teens are at risk for being victims of homicide and pregnant women between the ages of 15 to 24 are three times more likely to die from homicide than their older counterparts. Laci Peterson, Jessie Davis, LaToyia Figueroa, Belinda Temple and Cherica Adams all belonged to a sisterhood of women whose men never wanted their babies. Some of these babies were rescued from the wombs of their dying mothers while others were buried in their dead mothers’ arms. Pregnant women who
1. are involved in a relationship with a married man
2. have a partner who insists on an abortion
3. have partners who are adamantly opposed to providing child support
4. have a jealous ex-husband or partner who’s upset about the pregnancy
5. have a partner who adamantly denies paternity
6. have partners who are verbally or physically abusive
7. have partners who are controlling
are at risk for significant harm. If you feel threatened, please obtain a Court Order of Protection and never meet your partner alone. Make friends or family members aware of your concerns and become familiar with domestic violence agencies.
Having a baby shouldn’t turn into a deadly affair.
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A Voice of Sanity said,
September 29, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Laci Peterson, … belonged to a sisterhood of women whose men never
wanted their babies.
Utter nonsense. Laci Peterson was murdered by another woman who wanted and tried to steal her baby.**. Her husband most definitely wanted both her and his new son, and proved it often. The state spent $11 million, 5 months on a trial and still had to rig the judge and the jury to convict him. In the whole trial, there is not a single piece of evidence to be found which goes to his guilt. All of it goes to his innocence.
** Womb cut open
** Full term baby removed from body
** Placenta missing
** Cord crudely cut
** Underwear worn out by long use
.. etc.
drlindagalloway said,
September 29, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Really?!
A Voice of Sanity said,
September 30, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Yes. Follow the link in my name and read the first two pages which will take less than 3 minutes. The next link down is a list of cases. There were three known cases in 2003 including Laci, two the following year. This is about average for this crime.
This was the most compelling motive, between $100,000 and $1,000,000 depending on how you calculate it. No one ever found any motive for Scott to harm Laci. The state made a lot of noise but admitted it could find no motive and the jury admitted as much.
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