Word: melissas
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...CHARGED. MELISSA DREXLER, 18, enigmatic teen who secretly gave birth in a rest-room stall at her senior prom, dumped her baby into the trash, then headed for the dance floor; with murder and endangering a child; in Freehold, N.J. Prosecutors say the boy was alive at the time of delivery and died of asphyxiation...
FREEHOLD, New Jersey: The biggest question surrounding the case of Melissa Drexler was answered as the high school senior was charged with murder after an autopsy concluded her baby born while she attended prom was strangled or suffocated. Prosecutors had waited to file charges until they could determine whether the baby could have survived independently of his mother. Officials have not yet said whether they will seek the death penalty...
Depravity was defined downward last week, six months after two New Jersey teenagers--who had been given everything but a conscience--delivered a baby boy and briskly disposed of him in a Dumpster before heading to the White Glove Car Wash to rinse off the blood. Now we have Melissa Drexler, who slipped into the bathroom at her senior prom, delivered a 6-lb. 6-oz. baby boy and tossed him in the trash basket with the soiled paper towels in time to get back to the party. She asked the disk jockey to play her favorite Metallica song...
...occur, right-to-life proponents argue that we've arrived at the bottom of the slippery slope they've been warning us about since Roe v. Wade in 1973. As usual, Newt Gingrich goes too far when he talks about a culture of Dumpster babies, but why couldn't Melissa have wrapped the baby in a cloth and left him, as panicked girls used to do, someplace safe like the church steps, or turn to the Yellow Pages, filled with "pregnancy counseling" and "abortion alternatives...
...cling to their own doomed bill rather than give up a potent political issue or accept Daschle's exception to the ban for women whose pregnancies could cause "grievous physical injury"--even though that closes the mental-health loophole. If it's disregard for life that turns girls like Melissa into murderous monsters, then the Republicans need look no farther than themselves for someone to blame...