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...would anyone but Melissa Drexler be to blame for disposing of her baby? She's the one who put it in a trash can at her prom [PUBLIC EYE, June 23]. With all the methods available to teenagers today to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, there is simply no excuse. You cannot blame her parents for not putting her on the Pill, her teachers for not handing her condoms to use when she wanted to have sex, or a political party for wanting to preserve life. Drexler knew she was expecting and had time to have a legal abortion. This horrible...
CHARGED. MELISSA DREXLER, 18, enigmatic teen who secretly gave birth in a rest-room stall at her senior prom, dumped her baby into the trash, then headed for the dance floor; with murder and endangering a child; in Freehold, N.J. Prosecutors say the boy was alive at the time of delivery and died of asphyxiation...
FREEHOLD, New Jersey: The biggest question surrounding the case of Melissa Drexler was answered as the high school senior was charged with murder after an autopsy concluded her baby born while she attended prom was strangled or suffocated. Prosecutors had waited to file charges until they could determine whether the baby could have survived independently of his mother. Officials have not yet said whether they will seek the death penalty...
Cleaning up after themselves, as Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson did, seems like a quaint gesture of guilt next to a hasty return to the prom for a postpartum spin around the dance floor. There's not a flicker of humanity in these cases, and there are more of them being reported, if not more of them happening. No one keeps comprehensive statistics on abandoned babies, but in Los Angeles County last year, there were 10 newborns left to die; two summers ago, three were discarded in Southern California beach communities. In Monmouth County, N.J., where Drexler left her baby...
...newspaper ads suggesting that girls were having third-trimester abortions because they couldn't fit into their prom dresses remain pro-life hyperbole, but the Roman Catholic bishops who ran them are right when they say there is almost no difference between the prom Mom and a woman having a third-trimester abortion, except for location and a few days...