From AP reporter Christine Armario -- 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.
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...
This story is filled with horror, tragedy and irony. And there are elements which combine all three such as the facts that this brute hasn't been arrested; that the medical board couldn't even decide if it should jerk his license (they finally did); and that pro-abortion folks are shocked over this barbarity. Why the shock? After all, the abortionist's violence is just as horrid, just as irrational, and certainly just as lethal when performed on a baby inside the uterus.
And then there's this observation from the story, one that should motivate pro-lifers to keep emphasizing ultrasounds and other visual evidence of the preborn child's humanity. Speaking of the mother's change of hear when she saw her baby, "'She came face to face with a human being,' Pennekamp said. 'And that changed everything.'"
For more on this story, see Jill Stanek's posts here and here.
