For once the Pro-life and Pro-choice brigade are united in their condemnation of the ending of a young life.

A Florida girl attended an abortion clinic in Hialeah, for an induced abortion. After being given the various medications that are prescribed in these situations by the ‘Pro-choice’ clinics, she went into labour and was delivered of a live baby. Not quite the outcome that had been expected. 

Presumably mindful that this young woman had signed $1,200 contract with the clinic to enable her to ‘choose’ not to have a live child, a Director of the clinic calmly scooped up the baby, placed the baby  in a plastic bag and put the bag in a trash can. 

Which was where Police found the remains of the infant some weeks later. They confirmed that the child had been born alive. There is a criminal investigation pending and the clinic’s Doctor has had his medical licence revoked. Doctors are required by law to take care of a premature infant, even if that infant is born prematurely as the result of a botched abortion. 

This being America, the young girl involved is now suing the clinic – and being represented to do so by lawyers from the anti-abortion movement.

The pro-life and pro-choice lobbies like to debate these issues in soft euphemisms, this tiny infant has the dragged the truth under a piercing spotlight. The girl’s lawyer said of her new found anti-abortion stand:

“She came face to face with a human being and that changed everything.”

Isn’t that the truth? A human being. A helpless human being. How can we pretend otherwise? 

janes February 8, 2009 at 17:31

Unfortunately the Hippocratic oath doesn’t seem to cover exactly what to do
in those circumstances. You would think basic humanity would have taken over
but perhaps, at $1,200 a shot, humanity is abandoned at the office door.

Anna Raccoon
February 8, 2009 at 17:34

Lawyers don’t deal in humanity – Contract law would have governed their
advice.