Baby Dies On Rooftop - Cause of Death?

OJ Simpson - remember him - has nothing on Miami, Florida, where two felony charges were recently dropped against an unlicensed abortion clinic worker, Belkis Gonzalez. Gonzalez was accused of taking an infant, who was born alive from an incomplete abortion, stuffing it in a bag, and taking it up to the roof of the clinic, where it was cruelly left to slowly die. Unfortunately, prosecutors were left without any kind of a case, when the doctors who were scheduled to testify against Gonzalez, changed their opinions on the matter.

The unidentified owner of the famous black glove, in the OJ Simpson murder trial, is trivial evidence, compared to a baby in a bag, left to die of exposure on a rooftop. And in this case, the defendant herself, was the one accused of evidence tampering - that evidence being the poor helpless infant in a bag. The last moments on this earth, of this tiny human, ripped from the security of it's mother's womb and thrown into a bag, we can only imagine with tears in our eyes. Though it seems there were no tears in the eyes of Belkis Gonzalez, as she cut the umbilical cord of the live girl infant, shoved her into a bio-hazard bag, then tossed her little helpless body onto the roof of the clinic, in order to hide the evidence from authorities. A bit more tricky than disposing of a bloody glove, wouldn't ya think?

Gonzalez was also charged with the unlicensed practice of medicine, along with the evidence tampering charge. Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, said, "Everyone wants to use common sense. There was no common sense involved in this case." Common sense? What common sense is there here to begin with? This is the whole problem with the abortion issue! How do you make sense out of any of it? Had the abortion gone as planned, the baby would have been delivered DOA, and none of this would have been an issue. The criteria for defining a human being, from the pro-choice perspective, is the most nonsensical of all. A human being is an object of choice one moment - a murder victim the next. Based on what? What changes the status of a person's identity, from one moment to the next? Is breathing outside the womb the only criteria that defines a human being?

This case evoked outrage from the pro-life community, as well as, the Florida legislature. Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue, Cheryll Sullenger stated, "We spoke with both the Hialeah police and the prosecutor's office in this case numerous times. The police indicated to us that they wanted Gonzalez charged with a homicide, but prosecutors dragged their feet every inch of the way." She went on to say, "When abortion is involved, it can be very difficult to get justice because of a political climate that seeks to protect abortionists at any cost. That is beginning to change, but this case illustrates that there is still a long way to go."

The mother named her baby girl Shanice, and expressing remorse for attempting to abort her child, has now filed a civil suit against those responsible. Those responsible? The question here is, was this baby killed by putting it in a bag on a roof, or was it killed by abortion?