Sunday, April 02, 2006

Sad anniversary: Baby Rowan dies in abortion clinic toilet

Liberty Counsel Press Release - April 25, 2005
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.

.... 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.

And now New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney is fighting to keep pro-life pregnancy centers from reaching out to women like Angele before they get sucked into the lies and betrayal of the abortion clinic. If Rep. Maloney gets her way, there will be even more mothers like Angele learning too late that there had been help available to them -- help Rep. Maloney don't want them to have access to.

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