Unborn

There’s a 2005 story I recently read in World Net Daily about a woman who delivered a baby in the restroom of an abortion clinic and the employees of the clinic did nothing to help her, leaving the baby to die.

This mother, in a discussion about the procedure of ending the life of her child said,

I was concerned that it would hurt the baby as it generally (from what I’ve read) burns the skin and lungs. I expressed my concerns that he not suffer or feel anything.

I’m stunned. I don’t know if I just haven’t thought about this topic in awhile and it’s suddenly coming back to me or what, but this is just shocking to me. It’s incredible that 1) any woman can carry a child in her womb for 22 weeks and then walk into an abortion clinic to get rid of the baby, 2) that the law allows it, and 3) that there’s any concern at all for how a baby feels as it’s life is being taken from it!

She goes on to say,

That night, all night off and on I could feel the baby still moving. I told my friend this worried me. I remember thinking it must take time to slow down and stop his heart.

Last week a friend of a friend lost her baby at 22 weeks and another friend I heard this week is at 22 weeks and bed-ridden in the hospital and can’t go home with her family (she was visiting from another state). She can’t even turn to the side, has to lie on her back, or the baby will die. The first woman is dying inside from the death of her baby and the second is walking on hot coal to save the life of her near born child.

It’s horrific to see these women go through this and then see this other woman talk about the very opposite. She appears to love her child, concerned for it feeling pain, and yet has no concern at all about killing him.

Seeing life right in front of you should change you

But then, she delivered her baby. In the cold bathroom of the clinic she pushed through contractions alone and delivered the little boy and something changed in her.

I showed her Rowan [she had named him by now], told her he was alive and moving and to call 911! She took a quick look, said he’s not moving now and she’d be back to take care of things while walking out. I called her again. I was touching Rowan softly and he moved again. I called her back. Rowan jumped, I think startled by the loud sound of my calling for help. I showed her that he was moving and alive. I begged her to hurry and call 911, now!

She said for me to lie down and she would get her supervisor. No one came.

Inconceivable in a “health clinic”, no? And yet, sadly, this is how many abortion clinics are. They offer no real medicine, only quick solutions to selfish problems. And Planned Parenthood specifically, has become so die hard political (even setting up lobbyists offices in their clinics) that the issue of choice is more important that any one life, a mother’s or a baby’s.

But I digress. What I want to say is that I’m encouraged by the change in this mother. So many women would have said, “oops” to a baby being born alive and left him to join the clinic staff in letting him die. Another woman might have left the clinic that day feeling relief that it was finally over and she could go on with her life guilt-free. This woman was different. She saw a baby with hair on its head, shivering, and she saw her son, her son who needed a doctor.

I had been so wrong to come here and yet I felt so lucky to have my son born alive. I wanted to fix and change everything once I saw his precious little face and body. All we needed was someone to get us to safety.

And still, there’s a bit of hypocrisy to it. Just before her baby was born, she was planning his funeral.

Although ‘labor and delivery’ is most difficult on the mother, it seemed to be the best choice for my son. And it would allow the opportunity for my son to be born whole, stillborn, and I could hold him and grieve him and have him cremated. I wanted him to go from my tummy to heaven in the most dignified way possible.

Although I feel for this woman, I can’t help feeling like this is a slap in the face to the multitude of distraught women out there who spend their lives praying God will give them just one baby, and then to those who get that blessing only to have it taken away, stillborn. That someone would purposefully set out to make arrangements to cause their own child to be stillborn is a shock to me, but then to have the audacity to ask for a way to grieve that child’s death?

Then surprisingly, the article reads,

A Christian, Angele told WND: “I chose Bible verses for his service and everything.”

I’m not sure what to say to this. Who chooses scripture for a funeral of a child their about to kill? What insane world do we live in to make this normal? A fallen one, I know, but it doesn’t make it easier to hear. Had I allowed myself to believe for one minute my own child was a living thing–not a blob of goo–I would never have been able to walk into my own “clinic” 12 years ago.

And of course, I’ve been there and I know that even christians have abortions but there’s something wrong with someone who doesn’t feel utter remorse in the depth of their soul for the slightest thought of killing their child. Someone who uses her faith to excuse what she did is… *sigh*.

Angele says she is going public with her story and considering legal action “so this doesn’t happen to anybody else.”

So what doesn’t happen to who, Angele? The baby or you? I’m still not wrapping my heart around this. How can a person who clearly believes in the choice of abortion now blame the abortion clinic for allowing her child to die after she had planned to kill him anyway? Of course I understand what the clinic did was unbelievably wrong, but who is she to make that judgment against the clinic. You might say they were following her wishes.

What happened never would have happened if she hadn’t been there in the first place. Had she stayed home and loved her baby as she loved her two other children, the baby would likely have been born on schedule and very much alive in the comfort of a hospital with real doctors whose jobs are to keep people alive, not the other way around.

I imagine an abortion clinic is in such a pattern of killing that they just don’t know what to do when it comes time to protect life.

This article, being from 2005 talks about a relatively new policy at the time, to protect infants born alive during an abortion. The article reads:

On Friday, the Bush administration said it would begin enforcing the 3-year-old Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a baby that survives an abortion.

On the one hand I’m surprised that it takes the Office of the President of the United States to make something like this happen, but on the other hand I’m not. If this past election has taught me anything it’s that this disrespect for all human life, much less human decency and compassion, is running wild across the country as more than half of us voted for a man who has promised to make his first priority to overturn this piece of legislation and make it legal for a child to die in a bathroom in an abortion clinic.

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Video of a nurse who has witnessed babies born alive and left to die

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