Media More Concerned With Woman’s Privacy Than Dying From Abortion

by Steven Ertelt

 Few mainstream media outlets have covered Jennifer Morbelli’s death from a botched legal abortion this month, and the ones that have covered it are much more concerned about her privacy than her abortion death.

Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, a 29-year-old woman from New Rochelle, New York died from a botched 33-week abortion on February 7.

But the Washington Post, in a column by writer Petula Dvorak titled “Woman loses her life and then her privacy after an abortion,” expresses more concern about the violation of Morbelli’s privacy by pro-life advocates who released her name and biography to the public to expose the abortion that claimed her life. Here is how she led off her column about Morbelli’s death.

Lots of people are opposed to the kind of late-term abortion that preceded the death of a woman in Maryland last week. I understand that.

 But everyone should be opposed to the blatantly illegal violation of her privacy and the exploitation of her death by protesters using it to make their point.

Her name and photo have appeared on protest signs, in blogs and in newspapers.

The intimate details of her medical records — probably leaked by someone with access to that information at the Germantown clinic where she got the abortion or the Rockville hospital where she died — should never have seen the light of day, let alone be broadcast at a rally the day after her death.

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