Just when we think we have entered the numbing, post-shock phase of the Colorado movie theater shooting, comes heartbreaking news to make it all brand new again. Shooting victim Ashley Moser miscarried her unborn child following surgery for gunshot wounds to her neck and abdomen. This was the baby that everyone was hailing the "miracle baby" for somehow being able to survive its mother's wounds. The same baby that lost a sister, 6 year old Veronica, the youngest victim, in this meaningless bloodbath. That same baby that everyone thought in their hearts would be delivered to term, to give mom Ashley a reason for living. Looks like James Holmes took that away, too.
It's moments like this that make you seriously question that "grand plan" that people like to talk about in hard times like this. Everything happens for a reason, we are told. But why this on top of everything else? What more could this poor young mom be put through and how will she ever be able to make sense and find acceptance in it all? Her grief must be unbearable at this point, if her family has even told her yet. They waited a while to break the news about her daughter because she was in such bad medical shape.
Now coming out of another surgery, she's greeted with even more tragic news. And the more we started to wonder whether James Holmes, sitting alive in that solitary cell, really did have severe mental problems that might in no way excuse but at least explain why he did what he did ... screw it. Screw him. He doesn't deserve the air he breathes. Any minuscule shred of understanding is wiped permanently away with his claiming of this innocent victim 13 who was denied a chance to even meet the world.
James Holmes will never be able to pay entirely for his brutal, evil crime. Even the death penalty doesn't seem harsh enough for him on this sad, sad day.
How will this young mom ever be able to recover from any of this?
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Extreme stress can cause a miscarriage. The stress of being shot and what sugery does to you is enough. Maybe they should have waited to tell her about loosing her daughter until the baby was born. I have miscarried, and I cannot imagine her pain of also losing a child and being assaulted by bullets, as well. She has a hard road ahead. My heart goes out to her.
My heart goes out to her. That poor women :(
So sad. I am a mom of 5 with my first grandchild on the way and this is just a tragedy. I wish he could be charged with the killing of the unborn child. http://www.theopinionatednation.com/2012/07/29/batman-killer-james-holmes-is-unborn-baby-killer/
First and foremost I have to say how deeply sorry I am for this mothers loss. I can't even begin to imagine the physical and emotional pain this woman is in, and I hope she has an amazing support system of friends and family to somehow see her through this.
Now, I have to adress what you wrote about how you fail to see howthis is part of a master plan. I am aChristian and I can tell you this is NOT, nor has it ever been Gods plan. Gods plan was for humans to live in peace, beauty and happiness. Humans have ruined it and we continue to ruin it. James Holmes took those children, not God. But God does promise that those who have died will live again and those who have suffered because of evil will be avenged.
I can not imagine going through what this woman has gone through. What a horrible, senseless tragedy.
Baby? She was only 8 weeks - that's just a bunch of cells, right? I mean, that's what we tell ourselves when someone chooses to abort one at that stage of development. And that's why the shooter won't be charged w/that murder - it's not a baby - start calling it that and oopsies, that means abortions kill babies - not just cells.
Note sarcasm.