ethics : AN ABORTION QUANDRY [+] serious ballot by herzog created Fri Aug 25, 06 Police and prosecutors in Hialeah, Fla., are investigating an abortion clinic incident that has all the markings of murder. On the morning of July 20, an 18-year-old girl walked into the A Gyn Diagnostics Center to abort her baby at 23 weeks. She had received medication to dilate her cervix the night before. By that afternoon, however, the clinic abortionist, Frantz Bazile, had not shown up for work. The girl delivered her baby, alive, moving, and trying to breathe. Clinic worker Belkis Gonzalez then allegedly cut the umbilical cord, stuffed the wriggling, gasping baby into a biohazard bag, and sealed the bag shut. That is the story the baby's mother and at least one other witness told investigators, according to Hialeah Deputy Police Chief Mark Overton. The day the baby was born, police received a tip and searched the clinic, but found no body. Nine days later, acting on another tip, police searched A Gyn again. This time they found the infant, still in the biohazard bag, unrefrigerated and badly decomposed. worldmag - - - - -- - - - - - Let's assume that everything happened exactly as they reported it. So Belkis Gonzalez took the baby after it had been born and strangled it to death. Very horrific, very tragic. But the woman had gone in for an abortion. The plan was to take the fetus and have some doctor scramble its brains then flush it out. In that case Mr. Gonzalez would have recieved no penalty and there would be no consternation. So what's the major difference? Obviously they did it in a particularly brutal manner, but the charge wasn't brutality, it was murder. And in murder cases the method may come up, but the major concern is whether or not you contributed to a persons death, even if it was painless and clean it's still murder. So why is abortion at this stage not considered murder? Obviously the child could survive outside the womb, although no doubt with considerable medical care, so that's not it. The woman elected to have the pregnancy terminated, so it's not like it was done against her will. The only real difference (beyond technicalities) I can see between this 'murder' and abortions carried out at this stage is that it was considerably more messy. Should that really define the difference between legal medical procedures and murder? Had this guy merely assisted with scrambling the kids brains, no problem, but doing it himself? Murder, no question. This strikes me as a very tenuous line the courts are walking here. I agree with the charge, it can be differentiated from abortion by . . . I disagree with the charges, what he did was wrong but not murder All abortions are wrong no matter what Ballot #101007 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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