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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She had to call outside the clinic for help
Of course, real doctors and nurses stay away from those kinds of places.
Please do not ever work with Pro life organizations dealing with women like this,you seem to not have compassion. Most of these women need understanding and compassion after they make this horrible mistake. Most of the women that I have met that are activists in the pro-life movement have had an abortion and will never get over the ache. They are trying to see that this horrible procedure is eliminated from our Society.There is too much work to be done and people to convince as well as help to let negativity mess up the progress we have made.
My prayers to you and yours, I have been so very, very blessed not have suffered that kind if loss.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for a 30-something woman who has other children- you can't convince that she did not know that she was carrying a baby inside her. At 22 weeks, it would have been moving around and kicking her, how any woman could walk into an abortion critic and have her child executed I will never understand.
I would hazard to guess that the reason that the clinic workers refused to call is that this type of thing is "business as usual." A mother would have to be awfully cold to look at a newborn like this and be able to justify it being just "a lump of tissue."
excuse me everyone, while I go wake my daughter up early from her nap to give her a hug. By far the saddest story I have ever read.
I'm very sorry for your loss. I'll include you in my prayers tonight.
No, you're being too charitable. A mafioso can murder someone for a reason.
What these people do is beyond cruel, it's beyond bloodsport, it's beyond thuggery. It's beyond greedy. Can't think of any word suitable.
"Evil" is a good start.
Good Lord. What ghouls.
This premee probably had a better than 70% chance of survival had he been born in a hospital.
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It's only "choice" if it's the choice to kill. Notice how much support there was of her choice to try and save her living child!
But will *she* be charged with anything?
And if not, *why* not?
This can't be true. Abortions don't have anything to do with children. They only affect unwanted tissue.
That's what we have been told anyway. Surely they wouldn't lie to us.
There was a thread yesterday about a 1999 Federal law that stated that clinics had to assist with babies that were aborted but lived.
Wouldn't that law apply to this case?
Seems like two different stories. One says he was in a toilet drowning....and one wonders why the mother didn't pull him out; and then this story about mom screaming for help in a room, and no mention of a toilet.
I am sad that a mother of two children, did not know that she was killing a baby, when going in for a 23 week old abortion.
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