A legal group representing a woman who says abortion-clinic employees refused to help her baby boy when he was born alive in a restroom has filed two complaints against the facility with Florida state regulatory agencies. The mother traveled from out of state to the EPOC Clinic of the Orlando Women's Center in Orlando, Fla., for a second-trimester abortion.
She claims on the first day she visited the clinic staff failed to inject the unborn baby with digoxin, a drug that stops his or her heart in preparation for what amounts to a stillborn birth. After taking labor-inducing drugs the next morning, she arrived at the clinic and was left alone in a "delivery room." Her labor increased greatly, she says, and she delivered the 22-week-old baby in the restroom.
She says she saw that her son was moving and cried for help, but that a staff member discounted her claim and refused to do anything to help the baby. According to his mother, the boy, whom she named Rowan, died about 11 minutes after birth.
The legal complaint details among the violations, a complete absence of a doctor during the abortion procedure, causing a death certificate to improperly state that Rowan was stillborn, and a complete lack of post-operative care. After the procedure, the mother was rushed out the door and received no follow-up care. She did not receive a rhogam shot, which was medically necessary for her, given her blood type.
A week ago, 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.
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I hope that the White House starts investigating this case, and shouts the truth from the rooftops.
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