Really.
In 1985, current presidential hopeful John Edwards was a simple trial lawyer trying a doctor for the death of a baby girl who was never born. He claimed that a c-section needed to be done and the doctor's failure to do this resulted in the baby's death.
How did he know all of this? Did he call other doctors to the stand to claim that the doctor on trial was a bad doctor? Did he present scientific studies or current medical practices to show the doctor's incompetence. No, he is a much better lawyer than that.
John Edwards told the jury that he could read minds.
Specifically, he was able to read the mind of the little girl while she was in the womb. Never mind that she had not developed a linguistic understanding in her pre-developed state, he was somehow able to speak to her telepathically!
It gets better. After the girl died, he could still communicate with her. In fact, in the trial he said that the unborn baby was talking to him. From heaven? He never said, exactly, how this worked, but he won the case.
I didn't know he cared so much about unborn babies. Is that why he has never sided with the pro-life movement? When he says that abortion is a womans' choice, does he hear the sounds of babies asking him why more must die? Or is able to tune them out?
And, did the jury in that case come from the mental ward, or what? (Also, it appears that c-sections do not save these poor children. John was wrong and the doctor's life was ruined, sound fair?)
You can read about it in the New York Times
1 comment:
Edwards....Edwards....he makes my skin crawl. "Beware the smiling stranger," says the bromide as old as the hills. He reeks of insincerity, condescension, and hypocrisy, but approximately half the country fails to see people like him as a touchstone of sorts--in other words, if you like 'im, I'm running the other way--a sign of how far we seem to have come in losing touch with common sense.
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