Posted on 05/02/2005 8:03:03 AM PDT by truthandlife
Workers at an Orlando abortion clinic are being accused of refusing to help a mother screaming for help after her baby was born alive. The baby died shortly thereafter. A legal group in Florida says as a result, the clinic may be slapped with a lawsuit. Other pro-life groups are calling for enforcement of a federal statute that requires doctors to render medical help to infants who survive an abortion.
Earlier this month, Angele -- a single mother in her thirties -- entered the EPOC clinic in Orlando seeking an abortion. On April 1, she was given drugs to start the process and told to return the following day. The next day, Angele took more medicine, went to the clinic, and was directed to a room where she eventually gave birth to a baby boy who she claims started moving. However, she claims clinic workers refused to help her child or call 9-1-1. The baby, who Angele named Rowan, died shortly after paramedics arrived at the clinic.
Mat Staver is president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, which has filed two complaints against the clinic, citing the complete absence of a doctor during the abortion procedure and complete lack of post-operative care. The abortionists named in the complaints are Dr. Harry Perper, who LC claims administered the procedure on the first day but was not present on the second day, and Dr. James Pendergraft, owner and supervisor of the clinic.
"We are hopeful that these complaints will lead to immediate change in the form of discipline against the doctors and revocation of the abortion license for the clinic," Staver says in a press release. "But we are also hopeful that these complaints will serve as the catalyst for long-term change."
The attorney explains that, in his opinion, abortion clinics are the least regulated medical facilities in the Sunshine State. "It is a travesty that tattoo parlors are more heavily regulated than abortion clinics," he points out. "That needs to change."
Staver's group has filed the complaints on behalf of Angele. "In Angele's darkest circumstances of her life, she assumed that abortion was the answer to her problems," he says. "But when she saw her son born -- especially born alive -- the emotions and the darkness of the past were erased in a moment."
Angele, who Staver says was encouraged to get an abortion by a Christian counselor, now wants to warn others about supposed "safe and painless" abortion procedures.
"She now understands that she's done a horrible thing to abort her child," Staver says. "She also understands that no one intervened to help her child. And this is the story, I think, Angele wants people to understand: that abortion is never the choice, never the option. It is always the choice to choose life rather than death."
Choice for Life Denied Two pro-life groups are making the point that this tragic incident demonstrates that abortion clinics are apparently not as committed to "choice" as they claim to be. Operation Rescue and the Christian Defense Coalition are calling for a full investigation into the actions of the clinic personnel.
Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition calls it "barbarous" to realize that Rowan could have been saved if employees at the clinic had responded in a professional and timely manner. Even though Angele wanted to save her child, he says, the "culture of death" at the clinic prevailed. "We are calling for a full investigation in this horrific death and pray that action is taken that would prevent it from ever happening again," Mahoney states.
Operation Rescue's Troy Newman concurs, calling for the prosecution of "all those involved in this horrible crime." He says he is hopeful officials conducting the investigation use all possible legal avenues that are available to them, including the Born Alive Infant Protection Act passed by Congress three years ago. Just last week, the Bush administration said it would start enforcing that statute, which requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a baby who survives an abortion procedure.
This is a common occurance in baby slaughterhouses. It is ususally covered up.
Alas and alack I might have expected as much.
I've GOT to get OUT of that Church!!!!!
Thanks for posting. I've said it here before and I'll say it again: when people object to limits on abortion with respect to a viable fetus, they can't use thei ideas of "not forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy" and "controlling one's body" to advance the argument. Then they fall back on "who will pay for the child" as an argument. The answer is, the same people who pay for the other "unwanted" people in prisons, old age homes, mental institutions and homeless shelters - you and I. To destroy a child and then pretend it never existed is somehow deemed more palatable than giving up the child for adoption and wondering about it for the rest of the "mother's" life.
Maybe if we saved the children who were viable people would be more likely to be more responsible in their actions to start with. Does anyone not know that sex makes babies?
wonderful irony: ("Wrongful Life?")
Unbelievable! A murderer who showed remorse only after being caught.
Muleteam1
Read an article here on FR a few weeks ago about episcopalian bishop "gene the queen". He not only approved of deviant sexual behavior but also a woman's "right to choose".
There are Christians In Name Only(CINO) out there.
I will bet $1,000,000,000 that no charges will be filed for any violation whatsoever.
"It is always the choice to choose life rather than death."
What does it say about a society in which this sentence stirs controversy and debate?
United Church of Christ. They are big abortion advocates. A hospital they sponsor in Oak Lawn, IL practices "Live Birth Abortions". see testimony for H.R. 4292 for details.
Manslaughter by Negligence: the killing of another person through gross negligence.
http://www.iejs.com/Law/Criminal_Law/Negligent_Homicide-Manslaughter.htm
However:
In mid 1999, a young single mother of New York lost her two-month-old son who she had been regularly breast-feeding and was charged with criminally negligent homicide for the death because malnutrition was found to be the cause. However, the defendant had repeatedly tried to find help for her sick child at the Medicaid HMO HIP center where she had a card, yet was turned down for care because the infant did not have one, which was to be mailed to her, unfortunately arriving after the death. According to law, the center is not legally able to turn away a patient with or with out the possession of a card, especially a child who needs services. However, after taking the last step to save her child by rushing him via cab to the local hospital where the infant died, the mother alone was charged for the death. The center was not charged to any degree for their inadequate services, which were the most significant stages leading to the tragic death of this newborn (Whyte, 1999).
On the other hand, from a case against Christian Scientists:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/twitchell.htm
On the other hand, the jury would have been warranted in finding that the Twitchells were wanton or reckless in failing to provide medical care for Robyn, if parents have a legal duty to provide a child with medical care in such circumstances and if the spiritual treatment provision of G. L. c. 273, § 1, did not protect them from manslaughter liability.
First of all, you would have to find a "number" (you pick it, 1, 5, 10?) of "Conservative" Attorneys Generals who would be willing to undertake this suit--and I seriously doubt you could find even 5, throughout the country.
Next of course, is that any attempt at this, would be blocked IMMEDIATELY, but some liberal Federal Judge.
Don't forget that the bishop's actual first name is Vicki!!!!
Life begins at conception--any abortion after that moment is M U R D E R !!!!!!!
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Maybe Christian was the counselors name.
"Cristian Smith, a counselor, told me to get an abortion"
Baby found perishing in abortuary toilet
Complaints filed over live-birth abortion.
Abortion staff ignores baby born alive?
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