Beer in the Headlights

One news story highlights a litany of societal ills facing the UK.

An English teenager died from complications two weeks after taking two abortion pills, her mother told an inquest into the teen's death this week.

Manon Jones, 18, described by her mother as a devout Christian teen, opted to terminate her pregnancy at six weeks because she feared the pregnancy would cause conflict within her "Muslim" boyfriend's family, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

The teen took the first dose of medication to terminate the pregnancy on June 10, 2005, and the second two days later. On June 15, Jones felt light headed and experienced heavy bleeding so her boyfriend took her to Southmead Hospital in Bristol, England for a scan. She was told the scan was "normal," the report said.

A "devout" Christian teenager gets knocked up by her Muslim boyfriend and decides to kill the baby. She then suffers from some serious side effects and dies as the result of sub-standard socialized medicine.

But at least the RU-486 and misdiagnosis were "free," right?

I think young Miss Jones got was the recipient of a smiting.