Amber Alert issued after fetus removed from mother's body

[ugarte]

CNN) -- Missouri authorities issued an Amber Alert for an infant who may have survived after a woman was slain and a fetus removed from her body.

Bobbi Jo Stinnett, who was eight months' pregnant, was killed Thursday afternoon in her home in Skidmore in northwestern Missouri, the Nodaway County Sheriff's Department said.

The initial Amber Alert said that "the fetus was extracted from the victim."

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/17/missouri.fetus/index.html

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A white female fetus traveling in a red car.

[aquart]

1. 8 months? That was a baby.

And it's been kidnapped.

But there's a real problem. Take a 7 months fetus. Cool. Nine months. Cool. But 8 months isn't cool and I don't remember why.

[one_true_leroy]

5. has to do with breathing reflexes...

at seven months, a baby's circulation pattern is more like a diving mammal, very efficient with lower O2 levels (remember, they are making do with air left over after mom breaths). During the 8th month, their circulation begins to change to prepare for breathing. By nine months, they are ready to breath. At seven months, they are more efficient in oxygen use, so they can survive hypoxia better, but at eight months, they have neither the protective circulation, nor the respiratory drive to supply more air (non-diving mammals are not very breath efficient, because they really don't have to be), and are at risk of hypoxia (low o2) and apneia (non breathing).

[aquart]

9. Yoicks. So that baby is in terrible danger.

And the person who committed murder to get a baby may feel compelled to do it again because this one didn't work.

btw, One True Leroy, thank you for the information. I remembered there was something. I had no idea it was this deadly.

[ogradda]

2. it's a baby now.

does the alert really say fetus? those people are nuts.

[KyndCulture]

3. Not even us god-hating, abortionist liberals would call this a fetus

This was nothing but to incite the anti-choicers into a frenzy....Damn you MSM for being so stupid.

Plain old science, I long for the days when it mattered.

This is a premature baby. sigh.

[RUDUing2]

10. thing is they did remove a fetus from the body...now if the fetus survived

then they are looking for an infant via the amber alert.....

They were actually using correct terminology...

[Bunny]

4. Oh my dear Lord. How awful. That poor woman.

What a terrible thing. I hope they can catch those responsible, they always seem to find stolen babies. Hopefully the baby will be alive and well.

[ThreeCatNight]

6. I may be just me, but.....

something just doesn't feel right about this.....
Something smells fishy here.

[Nikia]

7. Unfortunately, this sort of thing happens

Some women or couples are so obsessed about having a baby, which they may be unable to have, that they steal someone else's and pass it off as their own. Murdering an almost due woman is one way to get a newborn.

[Bunny]

8. Yes - it has happened before.

What a shame.

[idiosyncratic]

11. Yes, unbelievable as it is, it has happened before

The case I remember was when the murderer used a key to cut open the pregnant victim. It was horrific.

[UdoKier]

12. If it was removed, it is not a fetus.

If it's still alive, it is a preemie.