February 5th 2009
Our Crumbling Civilization: Throwing The Baby Out Edition
D
avid Ogden, the porn-lovin’, baby-hatin’, Europe-fawnin’ Obama designee for #2 at Justice, is the kind of guy who would salivate at the opportunity to defend the villain in this case - and the fact that he would, and the fact that he would want to wouldn’t stop his nomination, and the fact that this happened in America in 2009 is a sign of our crumbling civilization:
Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.
Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure. (source)
Not that it really matters to me since it’s obvious that it’s a kid at conception, note that Williams is about as close as you can get to her third trimester, and her baby was on the cusp of viability outside the womb.
Only Renelique didn’t arrive in time. According to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.
What Williams and the Health Department say happened next has shocked people on both sides of the abortion debate: One of the clinic’s owners, who has no medical license, cut the infant’s umbilical cord. Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.
Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.
Disgusting. Shocking. But what actually happened was actually even more disgusting and shocking than this account, which, believe it or not, is sanitized. Here’s how events were described in the lawsuit Williams has filed:
The complaint says one of the clinic owners, Belkis Gonzalez came in and cut the umbilical cord with scissors, then placed the baby in a plastic bag, and the bag in a trash can.
Williams’ lawsuit offers a cruder account: She says Gonzalez knocked the baby off the recliner chair where she had given birth, onto the floor. The baby’s umbilical cord was not clamped, allowing her to bleed out. Gonzalez scooped the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a red plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.
It’s just another day at the office for Rodriquez.
As I said, Williams is now suing Renelique - something she has grounds to do, since I’m sure the whole ordeal was far more traumatizing than she anticipated. It’s something no woman should go through, especially an 18-year-old. But in a more cynical view, her lawsuit is just another sign of our crumbling civilization. One minute she was just fine with having Renelique abort and throw out her baby, and in the next moment she sees an opportunity to make some quick bucks through a lawsuit.
Fortunately, our civilization hasn’t crumbled so much that Renelique isn’t at risk of losing his license and Gonzales can’t be charged with murder. The Haiti-trained doctor’s license is indeed at risk, and an autopsy showed there was air in the baby’s lungs, so it was born alive. That makes sticking it in a plastic back and throwing it inthe trash grounds for murder - even if abortion isn’t.
Hat-tip: Jim
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February 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
This just makes me so sad.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Twenty-three weeks old? That’s young. Most infants born at that age die soon after birth. The doctor’s actions were quite unnecessary.
The mother’s behavior is more understandable. We start with a profoundly immature girl who is taking a profoundly immature action, assuming she was having a healthy child. Then she goes through the process of birth, and during it experiences the usual emotional changes most women go through when they give birth. Well, naturally she changes her mind. Eighteen year olds are not what you’d call rational creatures. The hormones released during labor will change harder cases than what is still a child. The wonder is not that she changed her mind about a person she fully intended to kill, her keeping her intent would’ve been the wonder.
That said, the fact she gave birth during the prelim to the abortion makes me wonder. Had she started labor before they gave her the medication to dilate her cervix? Was she undergoing a spontaneous abortion or premature birth at the time? If that’s the case, it changes the situation drastically. It makes the doctor’s actions understandable, even though those actions remain inexcusable.
The news story doesn’t provide enough information to answer these questions. Given journalisms’ obsession with sensation and shock, I doubt we’ll ever get the full account in the media. Why did she seek the abortion? What happened prior to and during the preparation for the procedure? What was going on as she went through labor? How did the doctor and staff at the clinic react to her giving birth? Many questions, few answers. It is tragedy enough a small life was lost that could’ve been saved had the mother sought treatment at an emergency room, the cruel indifference of another makes it so much worse.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I can provide a bit more info from the portions of the article I didn’t quote. The girl, according to her lawyer, so take it with a grain of salt, was mixed up about yes/no on the abortion, but decided she couldn’t handle the finances. She was given a cervix-expanding drug before the doc was in the clinic, and they had trouble locating him. Time went by, the cervic kept expanding, and voila! The doc still had not shown up by then, so the non-medical clinic employee clipped the chord and chucked the baby.
My quick check of medical references indicate that the likelihood of survival are pretty good at 23 weeks.