Suicide - Case Studies

Emma Beck

Emma Beck, aged 30, a well known British artist committed suicide by hanging following the abortion of twins in February 21 of 2007. Her suicide note, in part read:

“Living is hell for me. I should never have had an abortion.

"I see now I would have been a good mum. I told everyone I didn’t want to do it, even at the hospital.

"I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died.

"I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does."

According to her mother, Emma only consented to the abortion to satisfy her boyfriend. Sylvia Beck wrote to the hospital after her daughter's death

"I want to know why she was not given the opportunity to see a counsellor.

"She was only going ahead with the abortion because her boyfriend did not want the twins.

"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579455/Artist-hanged-herself-after-aborting-her-twins.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-517346/Young-artist-hanged-grief-aborting-twins.html

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23440699-details/Young+artist+hanged+herself+after+grief+of+aborting+her+twins/article.do

http://www.christian.org.uk/news/20080222/grief-over-aborted-twins-drove-woman-to-suicide/

Other Cases

Ruchi Singh Guilt of abortion makes 19-yr-old commit suicide at nursing home

He's the Abortionist of Last Resort Series: ABORTION IN AMERICA.... Pay-Per-View - Newsday - ProQuest Archiver - Apr 24, 1989 A short time later, she committed suicide." But, ever the realist, he adds, "She might have killed herself even if she had had the abortion."

Deliberations Set Today In Abortion-Suicide Suit St. Louis Post-Dispatch - NewsBank - Mar 1, 1991 A St. Louis Circuit Court jury will begin deliberations today in a wrongful-death suit involving a 14-year-old girl who committed suicide just weeks after having an abortion at a clinic in St. Louis. The civil suit was filed in 1987 by Geneva Eidson of St. Louis. She alleges that the clinic, Reproductive Health Services Inc., was negligent in not obtaining psychiatric information about her daughter, Sandra Kaiser, before the girl underwent an abortion in October 1984.

Abortion Study Findings Released -- "an 18-year-old who committed suicide three days after the procedure be cause of guilt feelings about having "killed her baby,". Tri City Herald - Google News Archive - Jun 4, 1972

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