Bella Prowse had once aborted a baby. It was a mistake she did not want to repeat. And so, when she learned she was pregnant again after engaging in a brief fling, she resisted the man's demands that she have this child killed.That wasn't the right answer for her lover, Dr. Edward Erin, a well-respected London physician whose work with asthma had been widely heralded...and who turned out to be married with two other children.
True, that was a weird deal in itself. It was an "open marriage" between Erin and microbiologist Dr. Lowri Phylip, a relationship in which she knowingly accepted his numerous sexual affairs. Dr. Phylip even accepted the fact that her husband kept his marriage a secret from his professional colleagues, including Ms. Prowse.
At any rate, Dr. Erin didn't want any more complications in his life. And he wanted to make sure that Ms. Prowse was still able to ski, hike and...well, do other things that a pregnancy would postpone. She wouldn't even have to undergo surgery. He offered to give her drugs so that she would abort the child easily...and privately.
She again said no.
And so, since she resisted his arguments to abort the child they had conceived, he came up with another plan. Dr. Erin, who had earned a PhD. in pharmacology, attempted on three occasions to spike her drinks (tea, orange juice and a Starbucks coffee) with a poison that would have killed her preborn child.
Prowse got wise and turned him in. He was convicted on Monday.
The General Medical Council had already banned Edward Erin from working directly with patients but they are expected to now strike him off the medical register altogether.
Also expected is that Dr. Edward Erin, one of just two people in the past 40 years to be prosecuted under a rare statute of the 1861 Offences Against the Persons Act (originally designed before abortions became legal in the 1960s), will be going to jail.
And the child he targeted? He's now a healthy, growing boy.
For more, see these articles: Times, First Post, Metro and the Telegraph.
There are a whole bunch of points this case makes about the decadence of Western culture -- not the least of which is the schizophrenia involved in the court's prosecution of one doctor for endangering a mother and child with a powerful and dangerous chemical...while dozens of other doctors in the country are doing the very same thing every day!
The argument, of course, is that Dr. Erin did it without the mother's permission. Fair enough; throw the book at him for that.
But his crime against Ms. Prowse is only one aspect of the immorality and brutality that Dr. Erin committed. She had her day in court and I applaud her for defending her own person and rights, even as I applaud her for defending her child. But, Dr. Erin's primary intention was to "terminate a pregnancy" by killing the unborn child. That is surely the most severe injustice here.
But, then that's the specific intention of the whole abortion industry too. For one cannot "induce the termination of pregnancies" without deliberately killing preborn boys and girls.
So yes, I'm pleased that Dr. Erin is out of medicine and is headed to jail. I'm even more pleased that Bella Prowse and her son escaped the worst effects of the violence and are thus alive and safe.
But I'm not pleased at the cold-heartedness, the inconsistency and the perverse lack of logic that moves courts to protect some human beings (as well as animals and plants, for crying out loud) while shrugging their shoulders at the horrific crimes of lethal violence being perpetrated against innocent children every single day...by "legal" abortionists.
Thus, the lupus in fabula here (the wolf in the tale) isn't really Dr. Edward Luna (who ultimately failed in his sinister plot to kill a baby) but rather it is all those lawmakers, judges, medical authorities, businessmen, educators, ministers, and all the rest who ignore all the other Dr. Luna's out there whose abortion businesses are succeeding all too well.
