August 7, 2021 – Canada Man's Sandbox

The Covid-19 pandemic is over in Norway, according to one of the doctors leading the response against coronavirus in the rich Scandinavian country.

Preben Aavitsland, chief physician in the infection control division at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, tweeted on Sunday a graph showing Norway with its lowest level of hospital admissions since the end of last summer and wrote: “That is the pandemic over with.”

He added to newspaper VG: “Here in Norway, the pandemic is so to say over. We can start to prepare ourselves for corona taking very little space in our everyday lives.”

“A fire chief would have said: the forest fire is out, and the danger for people and buildings is over, but there remains a little clearing up here and there, and we need to be vigilant,” he told state broadcaster NRK.

According to National Institute of Public Health chief physician Preben Aavitsland, even with the Delta strain becoming dominant, the number of hospitalisations and deaths will not exceed that of last summer. He ventured that the virus “will not disappear” as such, but will instead become a “minor threat”.

COVID Is Over In Norway Declares National Health Chief

A Michigan man was convicted this week of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend in attempts to kill her unborn baby after she refused to get an abortion.

WNEM News 5 reports a jury convicted Samuel Jenkins, 30, of Flint Township, Michigan of 10 charges including attempted assault of a pregnant individual to induce abortion, knowingly assaulting a pregnant woman, torture and first-degree criminal sexual assault.

In 2018, Jenkins found out that his girlfriend was pregnant and asked her to abort her unborn baby, according to prosecutors. At first, she agreed; but later, she decided that she could not go through with it, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said, according to Mlive.

At 27 weeks of pregnancy, when it became apparent to Jenkins that his girlfriend did not have an abortion, he became abusive and threatened to kill her, Leyton said.

On Aug. 3, 2018, Jenkins punched her multiple times while she tried to shield her stomach from him, and then pulled a gun on her and told her he would shoot her in the stomach, the prosecutor continued.

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On Aug. 7, the girlfriend recorded Jenkins beating her and threatening her again, including threatening to kill their unborn baby by breaking the baby’s neck when he/she was born, the report states. Police said she escaped to the hospital and reported the abuse to authorities.

Police said they arrested Jenkins on Aug. 14.

Reports did not mention the baby’s condition.

Abortion and abuse frequently are connected. As LifeNews previously reported, one study found that 64 percent of post-abortive women said they felt pressure to have the abortion.

Several studies also have linked domestic violence to abortion. In these cases, some women were forced or pressured by partners into having abortions, while others believed having an abortion would help them escape abuse. A 2011 study in the journal “Obstetrician and Gynaecologist” found that almost 40 percent of the women seeking abortions had a history of physical abuse and relationship issues.

LifeNews also has been keeping track of reports involving allegations of forced and coerced abortions, as well as abuse connected with women who refuse to abort their unborn babies.

Reports include:

Canada – Man accused of killing toddler tried to force abortion on mother, court records show (CBC)

Minnesota – Man Charged for Allegedly Kicking Pregnant Woman in Stomach after She Refused an Abortion (Star Tribune)

Michigan – Man Charged With Raping Teen, Choking Her Until She Blacked Out Because She Refused Abortion

India – Parents Force Their Daughter to Have an Abortion Because Her Husband Was From the Wrong Caste

India – Abortion Pills Kill Woman 5 Months Pregnant After Partner Forced Her to Take Them

Brazil – Man Kills His Girlfriend’s Unborn Baby By Putting Abortion Pills in Her Vagina During Sex

Pakistan – 14-Year-Old Girl Dies After Rapist Allegedly Forced Her to Have Abortion

Tennessee – Man Kills His Pregnant Girlfriend and Her Baby After She Refuses to Have Abortion

England – Man Threatens to Slit His Baby’s Throat if His Ex-Girlfriend Didn’t Have Abortion

England – Husband Orders His Wife to Kill Their Unborn Baby in an Abortion

India – Police: Former Officer Rapes Teen Girl, Then Forces Her to Kill Her Baby in an Abortion