Abortion clinic survivor dies

ORLANDO (BP)– A tiny baby boy died in his mother’s arms in an Orlando abortion clinic April 2, the victim not only of her choice but of the unwillingness of the staff to help him, according to a legal organization representing the mother.

Almost 23 weeks pregnant, Angele, a single mother with two children, went to the EPOC Clinic in Orlando April 1 to begin the abortion process, Liberty Counsel reported. Laminaria were inserted in her cervix to begin dilation, and she took a prescription the next day to initiate labor to eject what would supposedly be a dead child. Angele returned to the clinic and gave birth to what appeared to be a healthy boy, whom she named Rowan, according to Liberty Counsel.

She screamed for help and for a clinic worker to call 911, but no one assisted her. Eventually, she retrieved her cell phone, but medical aid failed to arrive before her son died. “I could not stop crying,” Angele said, according to Liberty Counsel. “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.”

Liberty Counsel President Mat Staver said, “When I visited baby Rowan at the funeral home and saw his precious little body, fully formed with blond eyelashes and growing fingernails, I wondered, ‘How can we continue to kill our children and hide behind the rubric of choice?’ Rowan’s short life will not be in vain if his story can give life and hope to mothers who believe their only choice is abortion.”