Nine months ago, I spotlighted a disturbing London Times article on this blog about botched abortion procedures in the United Kingdom. The Times story was about the approx. fifty babies who survive abortion procedures every year. We must realize, I suppose, that it is possible that more than this survive but are then killed as unwanted anyway.

At least, that is what has happened recently in Florida (hat tip: T&S‘s Notes from All Over):

On July 19, an 18-year-old went to A Gyn Diagnostic Center at 3671 West 16th Avenue in Hialeah to start a late-term abortion procedure. Laminaria (seaweed sticks that look like matchsticks) were inserted into her cervix to slowly force it open. Laminaria expand when wetted.

Workers told the girl to return to the clinic the morning of July 20 to finish the abortion.

She arrived at 9:30 a.m., complaining of abdominal pain. She was told the abortionist, allegedly Frantz Bazile, had not yet arrived and to wait in the recovery room.

Sometime between 2-2:30 p.m., while still waiting for Bazile, she gave birth to a baby, with at least one clinic worker allegedly present. Both saw the baby gasping for air and “moving like a normal baby would move,” stated the source.

After five minutes, a staffer came in to the room, cut the umbilical cord, put the living baby in a red biohazard bag and threw the baby in the trash. Overton confirmed this person was clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez.

This is straightforward murder, even though the intent was to kill that baby while on the inside of its mother’s womb. The reality is, the baby survived to the outside — was actually born, and not aborted. The baby could have been rushed to the hospital, cared for, put up for adoption, and raised never knowing that its mother tried to abort it.

In addition, the callousness of what the clinic did — and evidence that it knew it had committed murder — is expressed in the fact that, upon learning of this incident, the police searched the clinic but found no body. But

On July 29, police received a tip that the baby was back inside the clinic. The tipster said workers had placed the baby on the clinic roof while police were searching the clinic and put the baby back in the trash when they thought the coast was clear.

This course of action, if true, says everything about the crime and its perpetrators.