How John Edwards made his fame and fortune

Ann Coulter has this to say about the Edwards selection:

Edwards specialized in babies with cerebral palsy whom he claimed would have been spared the affliction if only the doctors had immediately performed Caesarean sections.

As a result of such lawsuits, there are now more than four times as many Caesarean sections as there were in 1970. But curiously, there has been no change in the rate of babies born with cerebral palsy. As The New York Times reported: “Studies indicate that in most cases, the disorder is caused by fetal brain injury long before labor begins.” All those Caesareans have, however, increased the mother’s risk of death, hemorrhage, infection, pulmonary embolism and Mendelson’s syndrome.

In addition, the “little guys” Edwards claims to represent are having a lot more trouble finding doctors to deliver their babies these days as obstetricians leave the practice rather than pay malpractice insurance in excess of $100,000 a year.

As a woman who has had the experience personally, and watched friends being pressured into medical procedures they didn’t want and likely didn’t need, I find this offensive. It’s too bad Mr. Edwards can’t experience the pain and recovery having his abdomen surgically sliced open simply because his physician is afraid of a malpractice law suit.

I also find it offensive as a health care worker and as a health care consumer. In my state, doctors are leaving private practice because they can no longer afford the high malpractice fees. Family practitioners are no longer attending births, and everybody is documenting everything to cover their butts.

In one trial, Edwards said he was “channelling” a little girl named Jennifer.

In one of Edwards’ silver-tongued arguments to the jury on behalf of a girl born with cerebral palsy, he claimed he was channeling the unborn baby girl, Jennifer Campbell, who was speaking to the jurors through him:

“She said at 3, ‘I’m fine.’ She said at 4, ‘I’m having a little trouble, but I’m doing OK.’ Five, she said, ‘I’m having problems.’ At 5:30, she said, ‘I need out.'”

Ann brilliantly asks:

Is Edwards able to channel any children right before an abortionist’s fork is plunged into their tiny skulls? Why can’t he hear those babies saying, “Let me live! Stop spraying this saline solution all over me!” Edwards must experience interference in channeling the voices of babies about to be aborted. Their liberal mothers’ hands seem to muffle those voices.

My guess is that Mr. Edwards has a finally tuned sense of selecive channeling as well as selective hearing and moral values.

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