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[kpete]

UPDATE: Jennifer Fox, 19, spoke to The Stranger at the Occupy Seattle encampment at Seattle Central Community College. Fox begins by saying that she was three months pregnant last Tuesday evening when she joined an Occupy Seattle march that stopped at the intersection of 5th Avenue and Pine Street.

"I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in," she says. "I was screaming, 'I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.'" At that point, Fox continues, a Seattle police officer lifted his foot and it hit her in the stomach, and another officer pushed his bicycle into the crowd, again hitting Fox in the stomach. "Right before I turned, both cops lifted their pepper spray and sprayed me. My eyes puffed up and my eyes swelled shut," she says.

Fox asked for medical attention—the now-famous photo by Josh Trujillo of her being carried to the ambulance is here —and was rushed to Harborview Medical Center, she says, where doctors performed an ultrasound and said that they "didn't see anything wrong with the baby at the time." Fox says she had also seen a physician at Harborview for prenatal care about five week before.

"Everything was going okay until yesterday, when I started getting sick, cramps started, and I felt like I was going to pass out," Fox says.

MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/21/1038926/-Pregnant-Woman-Blasted-with-Pepper-Spray-by-SPD-Says-She-Miscarried?via=siderec
VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3F1ItGFF9sQ

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MORE:
Pregnant Occupier Alleges Police Brutality Resulted In Miscarriage

She has since visited the hospital once more and received heartbreaking news. On the 20th, Fox received news that she has miscarried, and alleges the miscarriage is due to the injuries she received during the police action on the 15th.

"It hurts. It's upsetting. I was ready to have a kid, because my family was going to support me in taking care of the child. Her name was going to be Miracle."
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/21/pregant-woman-blasted-with-pepper-spray-by-spd-reportedly-miscarries

[Vincardog]

1. IF life begins at conception, as SOME PEOPLE SAY, shouldn't those police be charges with murder?

[alp227]

2. Free Republic has nothing on this yet

but I'd expect some there to say "that whore deserved it because she's going to be a liberal feminist man-hating single mother leeching off welfare and child support" as a convenient cop out (pun?) from the anti-choice ideology.