Manishkuma Patel, RU-486 smoothie maker, is getting more time to prepare his defense.
Appleton -- A preliminary hearing for man accused of putting an abortion drug in his girlfriend's drink to kill her fetus has been postponed.
Businessman Manishkuma Patel of Appleton is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child, among other charges.
His defense attorney requested more time to prepare for the hearing because they added another lawyer. The hearing was rescheduled for Jan. 30.
The alleged victim, a 39-year-old family physician named Darshana Patel, is being represented by former Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager.
Peg Lautenschlager?
She's going to represent Darshana Patel and her murdered unborn child?
But Lautenschlager supports the murder of unborn children.
This is kind of awkward.
From December 9, 2005:
While the Food and Drug Administration delays a decision on whether to allow the “morning-after pill” to be sold over the counter, officials in several states are mounting efforts to make the emergency contraceptive easier to get.
In recent weeks, the stakes have increased in the contentious policy debate over the pill, which is sold under the name Plan B, with four pharmacists losing their jobs in Illinois, state attorneys preparing a lawsuit against the FDA in Wisconsin and tempers flaring in Massachusetts.
...Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager (D) last week took the first steps toward filing a lawsuit to force the FDA to let the drug be sold without a prescription. Under Wisconsin law, Lautenschlager needs the permission of Gov. Jim Doyle (D) before suing the federal government. Doyle gave his approval on Thursday, Dec. 9.
The manufacturers of Plan B first applied for FDA approval to sell the drug over the counter in 2003. But FDA management held off on the decision, over the objection of an advisory committee and its staff, claiming it did not have enough information on how the drug would affect young teenagers.
Lautenschlager told Stateline.org that she has two chief concerns in pursuing the litigation: the rights of rape victims and the costs to the state -- either because of abortions or ongoing medical bills -- if the drug remains available only by prescription.
As a legal matter, she said the FDA’s repeated delays – without an outright rejection of the application -- are “political” and violate the federal Administrative Practice Act, which governs how federal agencies must operate.
Granted, a woman electing to use RU-486 is a different matter than Manishkuma Patel stealthily slipping his abortion pill-laced concoctions to pregnant girlfriend Darshana Patel.
Still, Lautenschalger's history of pushing for the over-the-counter sale of RU-486 highlights the incredibly thin moral line that pro-abortion proponents have to walk.
Their contortions qualify them as honorary performers of Cirque du Soleil.
2 comments:
The "morning after pill" is a mega-dose birth control pill, which will only prevent an embroy from attaching, it won't dislodge an embryo that has already implanted.
RU-486 is a cancer drug that starves an implanted embryo to death by cutting off its blood supply from the mother.
They're not the same drug. They're not really even similar in how they work.
I don't think there's a dose of MAP high enough to dislodge an established pregnancy.
Thank you, Granny, for pointing out my mistake and the significant distinction between the drugs.
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