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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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1389973/posts?page=44#44 ... there is a substantial pro-life force at FR and we anticipated the actual reality even before the confirmations hit today. Welcome to FR ... join our pro-life band of warriors.
The workers ignored her cries because they would instantly become liabel due to the 'born alive infants protection act' ... they ignored the woman because they are in the business of serial killing and haven't a clue how to save a premature baby nor do they have ANY desire to save a child.
Demonic is the word I believe you're reaching for, pure demonic servitude.
Once the child was fully born even under our barbaric laws the child had the full rights of a citizen of the United States of America. The workers at this "clinic" should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for not taking action to try to save this little boys life. They should all go to prison.
What a winking beauty!
It's a saver, isn't it? I knew you would like that one. The funny thing is - I could have got it from you in the first place!!
one needn't be "leftist" to oppose the death penalty.
Sadly, you are right.
I said the same thing. Hinkey story.
Signed up yesterday, eh?
So freakin' what? You were a "n00b" once too...
You don't sound like you're very pro-life, n00b.
Where\how do you parse that out of her post? You're being an asshat dude, lighten up...
The mother tried to save the baby....just not perfectly enough or thoroughly for TNiga's taste. A mother who tries to save the baby when she awakens to the truth of what she's doing does not deserve comparison to the abortion profiteer (especially when the abortionist has standing instructions to refuse aid in this kind of situation). The moral distance between this mother and the abortionist is tremendous. Astronomic.
I don't think either of you grasp that, but that's not my fault.
Oh, and I was a n00b a long time ago, when people were justified in wondering if I was a disruptor or not. Save your clever "asshat" bon mots for someone who cares.
It's threadlines like these that make me wish we could exchange a few hooligans and pot smokers from our jails for the folks who consider the unborn as an expendable inconvenience.
What if these doctors are believers and live under grace?
The mother tried to save the baby....just not perfectly enough or thoroughly for TNiga's taste. A mother who tries to save the baby when she awakens to the truth of what she's doing does not deserve comparison to the abortion profiteer (especially when the abortionist has standing instructions to refuse aid in this kind of situation). The moral distance between this mother and the abortionist is tremendous. Astronomic.
Oh, I agree with that wholeheartedly. AFAIC, she's a casualty of war in this instance. She probably went in there with the whole 9 yards spiel of "lump of flesh", "no sentience", etc... Also, while tragic, her story will end up turning a lot of hearts...
I don't think either of you grasp that, but that's not my fault.
I grasp it easily enough. It was just the sheer pretentiousness you came across with in that post in dealing with someone, who, from posts I've seen on another thread, appears to be genuine FR material and doesn't need immediate chasing off by some old time FRossil (and I mean that in good camraderie).
Oh, and I was a n00b a long time ago, when people were justified in wondering if I was a disruptor or not.
The "n00b's" who count now and are needed might hang around if people treated them with respect, at least until they start actually posting DUish BS and demonstrate otherwise...
Save your clever "asshat" bon mots for someone who cares.
Care or not, it's bons mots, and combining it with clever is redundant...
Here I'll have to differ. Some people only think they're clever. I'm not referring here to you, just generally speaking. Some bon mots are clever, some are painfully hackneyed and awkward.
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