- Signatures: 505
- Goal: 50,000
- Deadline: 10-4-2008
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My name is Sarah Weingartner. I have a loving husband Sean and 3 precious children. Gabrielle is the oldest, she's about to turn 4 and so full of life. Sean Jr. just turned 3 and he's the problem solver. Our other daughter Gwendolyn will never see her first bithday though. She was nicknamed my red headed little devil because she was so active in my tummy for 8 months. Gwendolyn's life was over before it technically began, in the eyes of NJ laws anyway. I was in a serious motor vehicle accident on March 30, 2005. I have no recollection of it or the 3 weeks I spent in an induced coma. I awoke to hear the horrible news. The doctors tried to revive our baby girl without success, and because Gwendolyn didn't take a breath outside the womb NJ says she's not a person. NJ says she has no human rights. Nj does offer parent's of stillborn babies a Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. This is not something we are trying to accomplish, as it has already been done. We want anyone who kills an unborn child to face criminal charges, whether it was intentional or unitentional. In our case, it was unintentional. It was a car accident that caused our daughters' death, but it's a crime to kill people accidentally in car accidents. This is a big contradiction in itself. Why was this man never brought up on charges? Because NJ doesn't recognize unborn children as having rights. They don't count unless they take one breath outside the womb. There will never be any criminal charges filed against the man who kill our baby. We are seeking justice for all unborn babies. They deserve the rights we all have. Why are they short changed? We want there to be criminal charges filed in such instances. We are not trying to infringe on a woman's right to choose by any means, but this was a baby who was loved and wanted. We were 32 weeks pregnant. More than half the states in the United States have fetal protection laws. Some states even go as far as to protect a baby at just 7 weeks gestation. We are not trying to make abortion illegal, but even with abortion there is a cut off. You cannot have an abortion beyond 24 weeks because that child is then considered "viable" and can survive outside the womb. There are rare and extreme cicumstances which are medically needed for the health of the mother to abort a child beyond 24 weeks. It should be a crime to kill a child past what the medical field considers to be "viable". If Gwendolyn was born that day during a routine c-section, she would have lived. but she died as the result of injuries she and I suffered in the car accident. This man will never see jail time for killing our daughter, and we know there are other familes out there who have suffered such a loss. Our children are loved and wanted and can survive outside the womb, why don't they have the same rights? LET THEM KNOW IT'S NOT OK TO KILL UNBORN BABIES.
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| 507 | 7:53 pm PDT, Oct 16 | Donna Heath | 33 | Female | Pennsylvania | United States |  |
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| 506 | 7:25 pm PDT, Oct 16 | Jason Lambert | 32 | Male | Clayton | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 505 | 4:25 pm PDT, Aug 26 | Sam Brooks | 15 | Female | Leigh | United Kingdom | NJ, to put it bluntly, I HATE YOU, ok so that poor baby girl was a stillborn but she still was BORN, so she does have rights, and who are you to say she doesnt!!! DONT YOU THINK THAT FAMILY HAVE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH WITHOUT SOME LOWLIFE SAYING SHE DOESNT HAVE RIGHTS AND SHE WASNT A PERSON, WELL HELLO!!! 1) she had a name 2) she was nearly born only had one month to go 3) she was already moving, breathing, her heart was there and pumping and her organs were working. so....................... WHO ARE YOU TO SAY SHE DOESNT HAVE RIGHTS I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HATES YOU SO I'D DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, BUT IT IS FAR TO LATE FOR THAT! | |
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| 504 | 4:01 pm PDT, Aug 26 | carrianne cook | 15 | Female | Leigh | United Kingdom | NJ....NJ NJ NJ...YOU SAD ******* ******! OF COURSE THAT BABY HAD HUMAN RIGHTS! as you said, you gave the parents a certificate of 'still birth'! well, birth...birth of a child...child...person...person...human...what does that lead to? well thet me think....(light bulb above head appears) HUMAN RIGHTS YOU SAD IDIOT! oh yh by the way, just to be clear...I HATE YOU! AND IM SURE THIS FAMILY DOES TO! AND SO DO MANY PEOPLE! SO IF I WERE YOU, I WOULD GIVE THE FAMILY A RIGHT TO HAVE THE PROPER HUMAN RIGHTS FOR THERE DAUGHTER, SO THEY CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT AND SO Gwendolyn CAN GO TO A PLACE WHERE SHE CAN REST! (oh and by the way...the picture is for you(NJ)) |  |
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| 503 | 9:39 am PDT, Aug 4 | greta malkotzoglou | 32 | Female | Athens | Greece | |
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| 502 | 2:50 am PDT, Jul 31 | Amanda Gibbs | 25 | Female | COGAN STATION | Pennsylvania | United States |  |
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| 501 | 9:53 am PDT, Jul 17 | Ginger Geronimo | 31 | Female | Birmingham | Alabama | United States | |
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| 500 | 6:43 pm PDT, May 28 | Jami LaRosa | 35 | Female | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 499 | 7:00 am PDT, May 24 | DeAnna Nobles | 37 | Female | farmville | North Carolina | United States | |
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| 498 | 12:46 pm PDT, May 9 | brittany case | 20 | Female | council bluffs | Iowa | United States | |
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| 497 | 5:35 pm PDT, May 8 | Deb Sampson | 53 | Female | Connecticut | United States | |
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| 496 | 12:11 pm PDT, May 8 | CHARLES BUDD SR | 0 | Male | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 495 | 5:54 pm PDT, May 7 | Jennifer Budd-Auch | 28 | Female | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 494 | 11:37 pm PDT, May 4 | YVONN TEH | 39 | Female | Los Angeles | California | United States | |
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| 493 | 6:35 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Anonymous | 34 | Female | jackson | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 492 | 2:15 pm PDT, Apr 21 | catherine pisarchik | 0 | Female | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 491 | 6:54 am PDT, Apr 21 | THERESA H. CLAYTON | 43 | Female | Deptford | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 490 | 6:38 pm PDT, Apr 20 | Kerri Sanders | 0 | Female | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 489 | 4:17 am PDT, Apr 20 | Christina Heritage | 31 | Female | Florida | United States | |
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| 488 | 3:35 am PDT, Apr 20 | Vickie Jones | 36 | Female | Teaneck | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 487 | 11:26 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Barbara G. Behan | 52 | Female | New Jersey | United States | I work for the State of NJ for the Division of Developmental Disabilities; and I can tell you from living here all of my live and working for this state, its governors and most of its laws all really suck. NJ has the motto "PEOPLE FIRST" on the State Computers. What a JOKE! That poor, unborn baby was a living, breathing human life in utero. There should be the same "vehicular manslaughter" laws for DUI and other drivers that cause the death of an unborn child, no matter how many weeks in utero it was. It still was a mother's child that was ripped from her. Unfortunately, New Jersey spends too much money movingother to "new offices" and with the "new offices" comes "brand new furniture" and perks. Not enough attention and time is spent on enacting laws against people who kill unborn children, whether it be by a vehicle, drugs, a gun, a knife, or a punch in the somach. A new law should be enacted called "Gwendolyn's Law. Hell, if the NJ legislators can enact "Danielle's Law" nicknamed the" call 911 Law for the Developmentally Disabled residing in Community Care Residences with Skilled Care Providers) and "Megan's Law". Megan's Law began in NJ and now is nationwide, they should enact one for this poor woman who lost her child to a car accident which was not her fault. Wake up, Governor Corzine, stop spending the tax payer's money on government waste and start listening to the residents of NJ! |  |
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| 486 | 8:05 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Helen Vernillo | 65 | Female | New Jersey | United States | |
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| 485 | 6:13 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Heather A. Vernillo | 28 | Female | Port Reading | New Jersey | United States | As a NICU nurse in NJ I have seen my share of fetal dimise. Any baby born after 24 weeks regardless if they took a breath should have rights as a person. The baby died in utero because the placenta failed and the baby lost vital oxygen. This placenta would not of failed had Sarah's car not of been struck by another driver. If she were to of went into labor on her own at 32 weeks the baby would have a 99% survival rate with today's technology. The baby never had a chance to take a breath outside the womb because it died before it left the womb. Give Gwendolyn the rights of being a real person, not a fetus. | |
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| 484 | 2:50 am PDT, Mar 30 | avril kettle | 55 | Female | Grantham | United Kingdom | |
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| 483 | 10:52 pm PDT, Mar 27 | Karen Weils | 55 | Female | Lansingburg | New York | United States | |
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| 482 | 6:22 pm PDT, Mar 24 | Jon Marshall Jr | 30 | Male | Tanner | Alabama | United States | |
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| 481 | 10:46 am PDT, Mar 24 | Alex P Bostwick | 22 | Male | Covington | Kentucky | United States | |
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| 480 | 6:09 am PDT, Mar 23 | Sarah Panullo | 36 | Female | Waymart | Pennsylvania | United States | |
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| 479 | 5:13 pm PDT, Mar 22 | Shane Womack | 34 | Male | Temple | Texas | United States | |
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| 478 | 2:38 pm PDT, Mar 22 | Linda Giordano | 0 | Female | Ottawa | Canada | This is absurd, This child was given a name, this child was human, this child was wanted, this child died and no one except her family paid the price for her demise. This child was buried as a human being!! This child had rights!! Open your eyes people!! What if this mother was YOU!! This child was YOURS!! WHAT IF!!!!!! | |
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| 477 | 1:17 pm PDT, Mar 22 | RIVER FRANCE | 38 | Female | Guelph | Canada | |
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| 476 | 11:43 am PDT, Mar 22 | Cher Isbell | 34 | Female | San Antonio | Texas | United States | |
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| 475 | 11:38 am PDT, Mar 22 | Vickie Burchell | 43 | Female | Luttrell | Tennessee | United States | |
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| 474 | 8:22 am PDT, Mar 22 | Pamela White | 46 | Female | Beaufort | North Carolina | United States | |
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| 473 | 7:02 am PDT, Mar 22 | Jaylena Greenfield | 95 | Female | Ashland | Ohio | United States | |
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| 472 | 6:39 am PDT, Mar 22 | Virginia Schwartman | 39 | Female | Norfolk | Virginia | United States | |
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| 471 | 12:07 am PDT, Mar 22 | Oshadie Korale | 19 | Female | Boonlay | Singapore | |
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| 470 | 6:53 pm PDT, Mar 21 | JOCELYNE ANNIE | 57 | Female | Saint-augustin De Desmaures- | Canada | |
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| 469 | 4:34 pm PDT, Mar 21 | William Harper | 58 | Male | Athens | Georgia | United States | |
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| 468 | 4:00 pm PDT, Mar 21 | Darlene Davis | 46 | Female | Garden City | Michigan | United States | |
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| 467 | 6:22 pm PDT, Mar 20 | Anonymous | 56 | Female | Sydney | Australia | |
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| 466 | 4:42 pm PDT, Mar 20 | Maria Vasquez | 42 | Female | San Francisco | California | United States | |
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| 465 | 4:28 pm PDT, Mar 20 | charles mclachlan | 51 | Male | None | United Kingdom | |
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| 463 | 10:02 pm PST, Feb 22 | Erica Conover | 33 | Female | Florida | United States | Your family is in my prayers!!! I send my deepest sympathy for your losses! Keep your faith strong through these rough times and things will work out! | |
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| 462 | 9:59 pm PST, Feb 3 | Ashley Detrie | 23 | Female | Nekoosa | Wisconsin | United States | |
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| 461 | 2:10 pm PST, Jan 30 | Anton Oscar Iorga | 25 | Male | Regina | Canada | |
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| 459 | 1:13 am PST, Jan 18 | Jocelyn Nunes | 21 | Female | Carson City | Nevada | United States | I was moved by this story and I feel so sad for this family's tragic loss,I do believe this man responsible for Gwendolyn's death should not go unpunished.It's tragic that there are so many cases like this.These people wanted these babies and they were robbed of them,something was taken that can never be replaced,that should not go unpunished. | |
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| 458 | 2:26 am PST, Jan 16 | Simos Tarabatzis | 27 | Male | Kavala | Greece | |
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| 457 | 9:20 pm PST, Jan 14 | VICTORIA MARY STONG / COMMUNITY ACTIVIST | 44 | Female | Long Island City | New York | United States | GWENDOLYN'S DEATH SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF N.J. TO COMMENCE CHARGES AS SHE WAS FULL GROWN ALMOST AND FELT THE PAIN AS SHE DIED IN THE WOMB. GOD BLESS GWENDOLYN AND ALL THE BABIES WHO GET NO JUSTICE EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE ABOUT TO BE BORN. UNBORN BABIES NEED JUSTICE NOW! /GIVE BABY BELLA BACK TO HER MAMA NOW! EVERY CHILD NEEDS THEIR MOTHER AND CAN'T BE HEALTHY WITHOUT HER LOVE. /* THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY DAD FRANCIS FORBRICH WHEN HE WAS A BABY. I LOVED MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A PEDIATRICIAN NAMED DR. FRANK FORBRICH, BUT I'M ANGRY WITH HIM BECAUSE HE NEGLECTED BIG TIME TO WATCH MY FATHER AS HE RAN AROUND MY GRANDFATHERS PRACTICE. MY FATHER FRANCIS FORBRICH AT 2 YEARS OLD WAS LEFT TO RUN AROUND THE PRACTICE/DOCTORS OFFICE OF MY GRANDFATHER AND WOULD GRAB & EAT PILLS OFF THE COUNTERS THINKING THEY WERE CANDY. AS A RESULT, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, HE HAD MANY MEDICAL ISSUES AND MY ENTIRE FAMILY TURNED ON HIM. I WAS THE ONLY ONE TO CARE FOR HIM IN HIS DYING DAYS. MY MOTHER HAS ISSUES JUST LIKE HIM BUT IT WAS H E R CHOICE AS AN ADULT TO TAKE DRUGS AS A TEENAGER AND GOD KNOWS MAYBE NOW TOO AND WHEN MY STEP-FATHER CHARLES PARRY RETALIATED AGAINST ME WHEN I REPORTED HIS PEDOPHILIA AGAINST ME, SHE CHOSE HIM WITH HER TWISTED MIND WHEN HE SAID "EITHER SHE GOES OR I GO"! MY MOTHER EMILY PARRY (OF 12 GOLF COURSE ROAD, BELLPORT, N.Y./(631) 286-0341) UNBEKNOWNST TO MOST PEOPLE, STOLE ME AND MY BROTHER FROM MY FATHER WHILE HE WAS AT WORK AND DISAPPEARED WHEN I WAS 2 YEARS OLD. MY GRANDMOTHER VICTORIA MARY ROUBICEK HELP HIDE MY MOTHER, I AND 6 MONTH OLD BROTHER FROM HIM. SO FOR THOSE THAT THINK MY MOTHER IS THE VICTIM....................WAKE UP. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO NOT KNOW YOUR FATHER ALL YOUR LIFE? I ONLY SPENT 1 MONTH WITH MY FATHER FRANCIS FORBRICH MY ENTIRE LIFE BECAUSE OF MY MOTHER'S SELFISHNESS. I HAD TO PLAY DETECTIVE TO FIND HIM WITH NO HELP FROM MY FAMILY FINANCIALLY OR OTHERWISE AND AGAINST HER WILL! EMILY HAS ALWAYS LIED ABOUT ME AND TURNED MY ENTIRE FAMILY AGAINST ME ALONG WITH THE VILLAGE OF BELLPORT TO KEEP THEM FROM ME TELLING THEM THE TRUTH & REPORTING HER ABUSE TO POLICE AND EVERYONE. SHE TELLS THEM NOW THAT; I HAVE DRUG PROBLEMS(I'VE NEVER TAKEN ANY DRUGS BUT PRESCRIPTION WHEN I'VE HAD NO CHOICE),I'M "DANGEROUS", HAVE MENTAL PROBLEMS ETC.! I HAVE A GREAT HEAD ON MY SHOULDERS AND HAVE NONE OF THESE ISSUES. IN FACT, I HAVE BEEN EVALUATED FOR HER ACCUSATIONS IN THE PAST AND EVERYTHING CAME OUT NEGATIVE. THIS IS EMILY'S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATE ME! SO PLEASE.................DON'T BE FOOLED LIKE MANY HAVE. SHE EVEN TOLD ME WHEN AFTER BEATING ME UP IN ALCOHOLIC RAGES; "IF YOU CALL 911, THEY'LL TAKE YOU AWAY AND YOU'LL NEVER SEE OUR FAMILY AGAIN"! WELL, MY FAMILY NEVER TRYS TO BE NICE TO ME OR SEE ME IN OVER 29 YEARS NO THANKS TO HER. IN FACT THEY'VE COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST ME TO NO AVAIL BY THE SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT. THIS LACK OF HELP HAS MADE MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY FAMILY NOW IRREPARABLY DAMAGED. I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE PARRY, ROUBICEK, FORD, KRAKAUR, VENTURELLA, JARVIS OR ANY OTHER FAMILY CONNECTED TO THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR EXTREME LIES, ABUSE AND GROSS NEGLECT OF ME. THEY NEVER CARED I WAS THROWN OUT DUE TO REPORTING MY STEP-FATHER TO MY MOTHER AND MY MOTHER CARING MORE ABOUT SEX CHOOSING HIM AS S H E ' S THE ONE WITH THE MENTAL ISSUES. WHAT MOTHER PUTS HER TEENAGE DAUGHTER IN THE STREET WHEN HER DAUGHTER DOES THE RIGHT THING AND REPORTS HER PEDOPHILE STEP-FATHER?! MY MOTHER EMILY PARRY I S THE ONE WHO'S VERY "DANGEROUS"!! |  |
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| 456 | 1:43 pm PST, Jan 7 | Jess Anglemyer | 20 | Female | Elkhart | Indiana | United States | |
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| 455 | 11:18 am PST, Dec 28 | Anonymous | 0 | Female | Southington | Connecticut | United States | |
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| 454 | 10:44 am PST, Dec 27 | Anonymous | 27 | Female | Stuttgart | Germany | |
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| 453 | 9:00 am PST, Nov 24 | Carol Dillie | 29 | Female | Salina | Kansas | United States | |
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| 452 | 6:14 pm PDT, Oct 15 | linda marshall | 29 | Female | London | United Kingdom | |
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| 451 | 7:48 pm PDT, Oct 14 | Mary Hockett | 37 | Female | Decatur | Alabama | United States | |
Rights for Gwendolyn and other babies like her
While I was in a coma, my family had her funeral. She was already gone I never had the chance to see her. Our family is reaching out to everyone to help Gwendolyn and other babies just like her, fight for the rights they deserve. You see I was told that in NJ babies like Gwendolyn aren't really people, and they have no human rights. Gwendolyn and other children like her have a face and a family. They have no voice so we need to be ther voice, and speak up for something we belive in. In NJ the laws say that Gwendolyn would have had to have been born that day and take just one breath outside the womb to be a person and to have the rights we all have, but because she didn't take a breath, she wasn't a person. Gwendolyn was a living breathing baby 8 months along. Babies like Gwendolyn have over a 98% chance of survival if there is no serious car accident right before. NJ says Gwendolyn and other babies like her are not people. How do you mourn and grieve for some who's a no one? Gwendolyn is our daughter, and she was a person. It's unfurtunate that we have to be their voice and fight for the rights of her and other babies like her. NJ is a very liberal state I know, but we are one of the only states that does not have some kind of fetal law. A baby like Gwendolyn can survive outside the womb at 24 weeks. I'm sure my family and I are not alone. Fight for the rights of our children.
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