Posted on 04/25/2005 10:52:56 AM PDT by Coleus
Contact: Mat Staver - 407-875-2100
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2005
Orlando, FL – Angele, a single mother in her thirties with two children, thought that abortion was the answer to her circumstances. At almost 23 weeks gestation, she entered the EPOC Clinic in Orlando, Florida. Little did she realize that the next day she would give birth to a live, perfectly healthy boy whom she named Rowan. Cradling Rowan’s moving body, her screams for help were ignored by abortion clinic workers while her son took his last breath.
The clinic is known for late-term abortions and its well-known founder, Dr. James Pendergraft. A few years ago he served time in a federal prison regarding an alleged scheme to extort the city of Ocala, Florida by means of his other abortion clinic in that city.
On April 1, Angele was given Valium and laminaria were inserted in her cervix to begin dilation. She was told to return the following day. On April 2, Angele took prescribed medicine to induce labor. Cramping and crying, she went to the clinic and knocked repeatedly on the door. Eventually someone came and directed her to a room that had dried blood on the wall. She was given a blanket that was still wet. She began to bleed and go into labor. Despite her cries, no one assisted her. After one hard push, the baby was born, fully intact and definitely alive. Angele said, “His right leg moved. He curled up a bit, like he was cold; I screamed but no one came.” She pleaded for the clinic workers to call 911 but they did not.
Angele caressed and comforted her son by rubbing his back, tummy and chest. “I stroked his precious little head and kept telling him I loved him and we would be okay,” she said. Still no one came to help. Eventually Angele, holding the baby still attached to the umbilical cord, ran to get her cell phone. Help did not arrive in time. Rowan took his last breath.“After a few minutes I realized for certain that he was gone. I picked up my son. I held him to my chest. I rocked him and prayed. I could not stop crying,” said Angele. “I felt so bad. I felt so helpless. I had been so wrong to come here … I wanted to fix and change everything once I saw Rowan’s precious little face and body. All we needed was someone to get us to safety,” Angele said.
Mathew D. Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel, which represents Angele, stated: “When I visited baby Rowan at the funeral home and saw his precious little body, fully formed with blond eyelashes and growing fingernails, I wondered, ‘How can we continue to kill our children and hide behind the rubric of choice?’ Rowan’s short life will not be in vain if his story can give life and hope to mothers who believe their only choice is abortion. Rowan joins the ranks of thousands of children who die each day by abortion. Most have no names and we never see their faces. We must restore a culture of life. We must protect our precious, innocent children. We must extend a healing hand to mothers like Angele. The rhetoric and the politics of abortion must be replaced by a culture of life.”
Photographs of Rowan’s fully intact, perfectly formed body are posted in his memory at LC.org.
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ARF!
Touche'
Thanks for the ping!
Let's kill Terri too and starve her and not give her water.
' "He curled up a bit, like he was cold; I screamed but no one came.” She pleaded for the clinic workers to call 911 but they did not. '
Wow! Very heart-rendering report. How many people at that 'clinic' had made hypocratic oaths? They refused to call 911? Isn't that a violation of the law? Refusing to assist an endangered life?
So what you're saying is that those who are described in Corithians will be damned even if they have accepted Christ as their personal savior? Doesn't that fly in the face of our conventional wisdom of Grace?
I've heard so many people say why should I believe or participate or even open my ears when I hear so many people say "I can do what I want because I have grace." I really believe our concept of the mriacle of grace is perverted with the once saved always saved concept. It's sort of like life insuarance. Your promised coverage as long as you pay the premimum.
Let's not forget the so-called "mothers." After all, they are the ones keeping these butchers in business.
On 9-11 we saw in one HOUR the chilling mass slaughter that grieves the heart of God every day in America.
Yes. It's pure evil.
Know them by their deeds ...
but will their deed through grace equal salvation if they have already accepted the Lord?
Ping
You miss the point entirely ... with Grace (the Blood of The Lamb) comes God's Holy Spirit, and with His Spirit in you, you cannot be a serial killer thereafter, slaughtering the little ones for whom Christ has said ... well, you know the rest, or should.
Ah, but that's not what is taught. I've asked the same question of ardent anti-homosexual activists. If a gay man truly comes to the Lord with all his heart and for a few years lives up to his faith but for some reason laspses back to his old lifestyle, is he still saved? Maybe he starts hanging with old friends. Maybe he just cna't resist the urge (as child molesters seem to not be able to shake that sin). Those ardent anti-homosexual activists begrudingly admit that he is likely to be heaven bound.
I have a few unused fence posts on the farm you can have, if you're really needy.
Thank you for avoiding the direct answer.
WHY can't women who choose to have sex realize they are choosing the possibility of pregnancy?
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