Thursday, February 12, 2009

An Abortive Abortion

Best of the Web: Wall Street Journal, Feb. 10, 2009

The Associated Press reports from Tampa, Fla., on an abortion that went awry:

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.

The AP reports that "the case has riled the anti-abortion community, which contends the clinic's actions constitute murder." There was a time when even people outside "the anti-abortion community" would have agreed that killing a baby after birth constitutes murder.

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