{"id":1540,"date":"2004-12-19T13:25:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T18:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2004-12-19T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T18:25:35","slug":"1-health-risk-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/12\/1-health-risk-t\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Health Risk to pregnant women: Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Washington Post (registration required): <a title=\"Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths (washingtonpost.com)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A10074-2004Dec18.html\">Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eight months pregnant, Thomas, 18, was walking home from a grocery store when her ex-boyfriend shot her in the head execution-style because, prosecutors said, he believed fatherhood would get in the way of his music career. &#8220;This was a big, major inconvenience for him,&#8221; prosecutor Mark Curry said&#8230;.<br \/>\n[In another case, the father of the child] at first denied it was his child, then pressed for an abortion, then plotted murder.<br \/>\n&#8220;It seems to me that these guys hope against hope for a miscarriage or an abortion, but when everything else fails, they take the life of the woman to avoid having the baby,&#8221; said Jack Levin of Northeastern University.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.  &#8211;Pope Paul VI, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/paul_vi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html\">Humanae Vitae <\/a><\/i>(17)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Washington Post (registration required): Many New or Expectant Mothers Die Violent Deaths: Eight months pregnant, Thomas, 18, was walking home from a grocery store when her ex-boyfriend shot her in the head execution-style because, prosecutors said, he believed fatherhood would get in the way of his music career. &#8220;This was a big, major&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/12\/1-health-risk-t\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#1 Health Risk to pregnant women: Homicide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-issues","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}