Posted on 02/17/2009 3:40:57 PM PST by wagglebee
Miami, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The mother of a baby who was killed in a tragic and bizarre botched abortion case is now speaking out about her experience and the lawsuit she filed against the abortion practitioner. Sycloria Williams gave an exclusive interview to the Florida Catholic after a medical board revoked the abortion practitioner's license.
In July 2006, Williams sought an abortion at the GYN Diagnostic Center abortion facility in Hialeah, outside Miami.
Williams, 18 at the time, paid $1,200 for the abortion. She had preparatory work done for the abortion on one day and came back the next to complete the abortion procedure.
Instead, she gave birth to Shanice Denise Osbourne, whom abortion facility staff failed to provide medical care for and eventually hid from officials who came to the abortion center to investigate.
Earlier this month, the Florida Board of Medicine revoked the license of abortion practitioner Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique after declaring him guilty of medical malpractice.
The panel also found him guilty of wrongly delegating a medical responsibility meant for physicians to unlicensed personnel.
In the interview, Williams said she was "reluctant at first" to have the abortion "but as time passed it became more and more of an option."
After finding out that an abortion at the Miramar Woman Center was more than she could afford, Williams went to Renelique.
"He said that it was a two-day procedure, to take my medicines, and come back the next day. He just said it like one, two, three," she told the Florida Catholic.
Williams said Renelique inserted laminaria and gave her a prescription for Cytotec, a brand of the drug misoprostol that is an ulcer medication and not supposed to be used in association with an abortion.
Williams eventually received a call from the daughter of abortion business owner Belkis Gonzalez and made her way to the A Gyn center to complete the abortion. On the way there, she and her then-boyfriend Shane decided not to complete the abortion.
She received another dosage of Cytotec and waited in her car for the drug to work.
Williams told the newspaper how she recalls the labor intensifying and being unable to comply with requests from the abortion center staff not to deliver her baby, who was born on the couch in the abortion facility.
"When I saw that happen, I jumped off the chair and turned away, facing the wall," Williams said.
"She wasn't moving much. Twitching, gasping for air. She wasn't crying though, just hissing. Hissing sounds only," Williams said of Shanice. "I thought it would be a blob thing, but bigger, not a baby," she said. "She looked like a Water Baby. Like those dolls you fill up with water."
"They never said anything to me that would make me think it was a baby. They never said anything like ‘baby,’ ‘fetus.’ Nothing. They only said things like ‘termination’ and ‘pregnancy’ and ‘termination of pregnancy,'" she said.
Williams says Gonzalez, who has no medical training, then came in and took the baby and put her in a biohazard bag.
She told the newspaper that the staff just gave her a pain reliever and told her to calm down and wait for the abortion practitioner to arrive.
Renelique arrived 60 minutes later and no one called 911 or a local medical center for help. The abortion practitioner gave Williams a shot to put her to sleep.
Detectives went to the abortion center after an anonymous tip and later executed a search warrant but didn't find the baby's body until six days later.
Now, Williams has changed her mind about abortion and would keep her baby if she had it to do all over again.
"No one should lose their life if you get pregnant," she said. "If I got pregnant again I would have the baby."
"I would tell them not to do it. I'll say whatever to make them have second thoughts so they don't do it... There is help out there," she told the Catholic newspaper about what she would tell a woman who was pregnant.
Shanice eventually received a proper burial.
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Somehow “failed abortion” is a term that unsettles me. How about “attempted murder”?
It was really difficult to even finish reading the article.
The judiciary should have had to attend the funeral
I have mixed feelings here. I’m more than happy to see these facilities sued into bankruptcy but I don’t believe the mother should be financially rewarded since she could have stopped this.
shouldn’t a botched abortion result in a living child?
Good point. Does a mother who knowingly kills her child have a greater claim against an incompetent abortionist than a competent one?
What an evil world we live in.
“I’m more than happy to see these facilities sued into bankruptcy but I don’t believe the mother should be financially rewarded since she could have stopped this.”
Wanna bet the father of this child won’t get any money from this poor, pitiful abused would be mom.
Sometimes, I’ll take a win however I get it.
Poster child for enforced sterilization.
Its odd that she did not realize she was having a baby. Which is why when woman have ultra sounds most choose not to have abortions. When the life in them is always referred to as tissue or product of pregnancy or fetus or parasite (which is done for a reason), there is a huge disconnect.
"They never said anything to me that would make me think it was a baby. They never said anything like ‘baby,’ ‘fetus.’ Nothing. They only said things like ‘termination’ and ‘pregnancy’ and ‘termination of pregnancy,'" she said.
Dear God in heaven, preserve us from our follies.
I’m still not seeing the newsworthy nature of this story. This happens thousands of times every day in America.
When my children were little, my sister and I were in a local Right to Life group. I came home from a meeting one day and was talking with my sister about the meeting.
Well, my 8 year old daughter overheard and then started asking the question, “What is an abortion?” My daughter was intelligent and curious and we had already had the “where do babies come from” talk and I knew that I couldn’t get away with trying to dodge it.
I tried to explain it as gently as I could, but it broke my heart to see the look of horror come over my little girl’s face as I attempted to explain it. She asked me how could someone kill their baby? I told her that some people didn’t believe it was a baby yet.
She reached over to the table and picked up a booklet that had a picture of a 4 week old fetus in the womb and said, “Can’t they just look at it and see it’s a baby!?!”
I believe the clinic should have to pay all her medical bills and be put out of business, but I don’t believe the woman should profit financially. The article says that 911 wasn’t called. Why didn’t the woman or her boyfriend call 911?
The baby was born alive and then murdered.
Local “news” outlets in Miami will do huge reports on Hussein worship, American Idol, corrupt Republicans...but none of them have touched this story.
Now you know why the word news is in quotes.
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