Mom Severs Umbilical Cord, Baby Dies

By The Associated Press
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Police say 7-month-old pregnant woman intentionally cut the umbilical cord to her unborn baby. Mom Severs Umbilical Cord, Baby Dies
Published: Tue, July 15, 2008 - 1:29 pm
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say a Florence woman has been
charged in the death of her fetus after medical personnel
determined the umbilical cord had been intentionally severed.

30-year-old Jennifer Darlene Johnson was being held today on
$50,000 bond. A court official said she didn't have a lawyer.

Police say Johnson was about seven months into her pregnancy
when she was taken to Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield Friday
night. She said her water had broken and she was experiencing pain
and bleeding. Police said the fetus was dead when delivered at the
hospital.

Police said the umbilical cord was severed at the home of
Johnson's boyfriend in Florence. They said the boyfriend, whose
name was not released, drove her to the hospital after realizing
something was wrong. Jackson was released Sunday, but was taken
into custody a short time later on outstanding traffic tickets.

Johnson, who has two children living with their father, was
being held in the Lauderdale County Detention Center.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Yep, anything is possible.

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southfan1981,that may have been my subconscious mind blocking it out, beings how I’m a rehabilitated(if there’s a such thing) crack/cocaine addict. However keep in mind, that too(using cocaine or cocaine byproducts for abortion), is not 100%, hence the reason for crack babies. I know a woman, as bad as I hate to say it that has THREE crack babies. Each and every one of them, she smoked crack throughout 90% of the pregnancy. Finally, THANK GOD, upon the 3rd delivery, she was tested, and busted, children removed from her home(i think she went to jail). Rather or not she has cleaned up(doubtfully) or not today, I have no clue. Anyway, this subject(Jennifer Darlene Johnson)has pretty much played out. We will probably never get to hear exactly what happened, although I hope WKRG will give us more info later, it’s not likely. I do not think it was a strange act of GOD, however likely, and I can not say she did not have help, the point I was trying to make was ANYTHING is possible.shut eye

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Dewie, you forgot to mention Coke, the snort kind. The things you mentioned are better for early pregnancy. And let’s not forget good old birth control pills used within 72 hours of exposure to sperm. Some people even consider that life begins at procreation. So, anything interrupting that implantation would be an abortifacient. Again, it’s an opinion.

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I am saying I think someone else had to do it. I don’t think it is possible for a seven months pregnant woman to get a room with a view. It’s my opinion, nothing more.

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There are a number of anecdotally recorded and disseminated methods of performing a self-induced abortion. These may include:

* physical exertion designed to bring about a miscarriage
* abdominal massage
* receiving punches, kicks, or other blows to the abdominal area
* attempted removal of the fetus with a coat-hanger or similar device inserted into the uterus through the cervix (the historical use of this method has led to the use of coathangers as a symbol of the abortion rights movement, which associates self-induced abortion with the illegality of abortion)
* attempted piercing of the fetus with a knitting needle or similar device inserted into the uterus through the cervix
* suction through the insertion of a rubber tube into the uterus via the cervix
* ingesting abortifacients, high quantities of vitamin C, Pennyroyal or other substances believed to induce miscarriage
* douching with substances believed to induce miscarriage

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1st, you can not say it is IMPOSSIBLE, well you can, but you’d be wrong, it is IMPROBABLE. Where there is a will, there is a way! So in your eyes you telling me, that there is NO WAY possible, no matter how bad a woman wanted to; to insert a object(ex:coathanger,bailing wire) into her cervix, and fish around and snatch the object, resulting in a torn umbilical cord? I do not see why this is so far-fetched, that no one thinks it could happen.

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I meant hypoxia. I used the word for a reason. The baby suffered a generalized hypoxic episode, killing off her brain due to anoxia (extreme form of hypoxia). They do not mention a prolapsed chord. You are correct, that is what it’s called. It’s my assumption that the mother had access in order to SAW at it. Otherwise, someone went into her vagina, past her cervix and targeted the chord. I don’t see a 7 month pregnant lady doing that. Asphyxiation is used by pathologists to indicate choking or suffocation, usually. It is not a very precise term. Since this baby did not breathe in Oxygen, I chose not to use any other terms.

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I think what you are trying to say is not called hypoxia. It is called prolapsed cord. That is where the cord comes down in the birth canal before the baby. Lack of oxygen during birth is called birth asphyxia. No, I have not been to a abortion clinic so I am sure that is what a baby is referred to. I have known many girls and women who haaave had abortions and they still called their babies, “a baby”.

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You’ve met more women that call the life feeding off of them a “baby” because they plan to keep it. If you go to an abortion clinic you’ll hear it refered to as a “fetus” or “parasite.” Because until it breaths on its own, that’s what it legally is…

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I believe that is medically impossible to do herself, she had help.  Either way she killed her baby.  On the other note about labor (hard labor) with my first child my water broke about 11:45pm and I never started any labor slight pains til about 4:30am the hard labor came at about 6:00am my daughter was born at 10:29am so yes your water can break and it be several hours for hard labor pains to start.  She obviously did not want any more children and obviously didn’t need any more with her other children living with her father.  I am by no means saying what she has done is right in my eyes it is murder.  At least the poor little baby is with God and well taken care of.

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