So disturbing, so upsetting
"MIAMI - An abortion clinic owner is accused of delivering a live baby during a botched procedure and then throwing the infant away.
Belkis Gonzalez, 42, was arrested Tuesday and charged with practicing medicine without a license and tampering with evidence, both felonies, said Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office. If found guilty, Gonzalez would face at least a year in prison and up to 15 years."
Sycloria Williams is the teenage mother of the dead child and has filed a lawsuit. In it she claims that Gonzalez knocked the infant onto the floor then scooped up the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a bio-hazard bag and threw it out. The cause of death of the baby could not be determined because it had decomposed quite a bit before being found 8 days later.
The Abortion clinic's doctor, Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique, had been scheduled to perform the procedure, but Williams went into labor after being given drugs to dilate her cervix and waiting for hours for Renelique to arrive Last month Renelique's license was revoked for committing medical malpractice, delegating responsibility to unlicensed personnel and failing to keep an accurate medical record. Gonzalez was being held on $50,000 bond and a hearing was scheduled for this morning.
"At 23 weeks, an otherwise healthy fetus would have a slim but legitimate chance of survival. Quadruplets born at 23 weeks last year at The Nebraska Medical Center survived.
An autopsy determined Williams' baby - she named her Shanice - had filled her lungs with air, meaning she had been born alive, according to the Department of Health. The cause of death was listed as extreme prematurity."
Again the cause of death of the baby could not be determined because it had decomposed quite a bit before being found 8 days later.
What did NOW have to say? According to the story by the Associated Press:
"'It really disturbed me,' said Joanne Sterner, president of the Broward County chapter of the National Organization for Women, after reviewing the administrative complaint against Renelique. 'I know that there are clinics out there like this. And I hope that we can keep (women) from going to these types of clinics.'
We think that NOW could do more than "hope." They could provide and encourage alternatives to abortion and work to end abortion in this country but alas that is contrary to their support of abortion so they will just continue to sweep these horrible stories under the rug.
