Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Baby Was Left for Dead, Abandoned Inside a Hospital Bathroom

Baby Was Left for Dead, Abandoned Inside a Hospital Bathroom

 STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   JUL 31, 2017   |   5:07PM    SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
Two years after a premature baby girl was found dead in a California hospital toilet, her tiny body has been laid to rest.
California Catholic Daily reports the San Bernardino Catholic diocese was instrumental in giving the baby girl a proper burial. She was buried in the Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery on July 27 in Colton, California. The baby was named Rose Herrera-Cornejo.
According to the report, a nurse at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs found the baby girl’s dead body in a toilet in the hospital on June 3, 2015. An autopsy revealed that the infant weighed 2 pounds, 7 ounces and was born prematurely at about 30 weeks gestation. It is not clear if the baby girl was born alive.
The baby girl’s mother later was discovered when she came to the hospital complaining of bleeding, according to the report. The woman, who is not named in the report, admitted that baby Rose was her daughter.
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Palm Springs police investigated the incident but did not charge the woman; they said they believed the baby died because of medical reasons. The Riverside County Coroner could not determine the exact cause of her death.
As Catholics often do with the bodies of aborted and abandoned babies, local Catholics in Palm Springs asked to be allowed to give baby Rose a proper burial if the mother did not want her body. Authorities recently gave them permission to do so.
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The Catholic citizen, who asked not to be identified, said great gratitude must be expressed to San Bernardino Bishop Gerald Barnes, Deacon John, the staff at Our Lady Queen of Peace Cemetery, and to Rose Mortuary of Palm Desert. The diocese did not charge for services. They presented a beautiful marble cross, part of which was placed in Baby Rose’s casket.
A prayer card said, “Pray for mothers and fathers in our community that they be strengthened and not turn against or abandon their own child.”
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Woman Who Thought She Was Aborting Her 35-Week-Old Baby Finds He Was Sold to Her Cousin

Woman Who Thought She Was Aborting Her 35-Week-Old Baby Finds He Was Sold to Her Cousin

 INTERNATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JUL 31, 2017   |   10:20AM    BEIJING, CHINA
Almost too strange to believe, a nurse in China has been convicted of rescuing and later selling a baby whose mother thought doctors had aborted.
The Daily Mail reports 18-year-old Lili from Inner Mongolia had an abortion when she was 35 weeks pregnant in 2013.
It is unclear why Lili had the abortion or waited so long. China prohibits families from having more than two children. Sometimes women are forced or coerced to abort their unborn babies in China if they break the law. Being so young, Lili may have been unmarried. Unmarried women in China who become pregnant also can be penalized with heavy fines and often face social stigma.
Lili said she was told the abortion succeeded, but she learned otherwise three days later when police contacted her.
According to police, Liang Xiaohua, a maternity nurse, noticed that Lili’s baby still was alive after the abortion. The nurse said she pulled the baby out of a plastic disposal bag when she heard it crying. She rescued the baby by giving it oxygen and water and hiding it in a cupboard, according to the report. The baby’s sex is not mentioned.
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Here’s more from the report:
The nurse was overheard calling someone and asking if they wanted a child and telling them that she did not know if it was a boy or a girl.
She sold it to her cousin who took the child to her home.
Local villagers became suspicious of the cousin and informed police of the baby.
Some three days later, Lili found out that the baby had not died during the abortion and that the child had been sold.
Liang Xiaohua later was arrested and convicted of child abduction. A judge sentenced her to two years in prison, the report states. Lili requested 1.1 million yuan (about $163,000) in compensation, but courts did not grant her request. The court case settled in May, according to the report.
Abortion claims the lives of about 9 million unborn babies in China every year. The Asian country has the highest abortion rate in the world. Because of the country’s oppressive population control laws, some women are forced to abort their unborn babies or threatened with heavy fines and job loss for their entire families.
Unborn baby girls particularly are targeted. According to current population data, there are 34 million more men than women in China. Experts say this is largely due to sex-selection abortions.
In October, the BBC reported how one family went into hiding to protect their third child from being forcibly aborted. Government officials also admitted to frequently visiting pregnant women’s homes and pressuring them to abort their unborn babies.
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Charlie Gard’s Parents Starting a Foundation to Help Other Kids With Genetic Disorders

Charlie Gard’s Parents Starting a Foundation to Help Other Kids With Genetic Disorders

 INTERNATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JUL 31, 2017   |   12:26PM    LONDON, ENGLAND
Charlie Gard’s parents hope that their son’s legacy will help spare other children from what their family had to go through.
Reports indicate the family hopes to set up a foundation to help other children with rare genetic disorders.
The British infant died Friday after his life support was removed, following a lengthy court battle between his parents and hospital. He would have celebrated his 1st birthday on Aug. 4.
Charlie suffered from a rare mitochondrial disease and brain damage. He was at the center of a massive international debate after the hospital refused to allow an experimental treatment to help him and also refused to transfer him to another hospital that would allow the treatment.
Charlie’s parents took their fight to numerous courts to protect his life but to no avail. The courts argued that it was in Charlie’s best interest to be removed from life support.
During the trying ordeal, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, Charlie’s parents, raised more than £1.3 million (about $1.7 million) in donations for his medical care and legal fees.
The Sun reports the money now will be used to set up a charity to help children like Charlie who are suffering from genetic conditions. The family said they want to ensure that Charlie’s voice “continues to be heard.”
About 84,000 people donated to help Charlie and his parents through the GoFundMe fundraising page that his mother set up. Donations continue to pour in, even after the infant’s death.
Charlie’s mother plans lead the charity, and his father plans to return to his job as a postman, a person close to the family told The Sun.
Here’s more from the Telegraph:
The money was meant to pay for legal bills and the cost of flying their desperately ill baby and a medical team to the US. However, the fighting fund has barely been touched, in part because the couple’s’ lawyers were working on a pro bono basis.
A clue to how that money could now be used may be found in a the funding website Miss Yates, 31, set up. She explains at some length how there are limited resources for research into ways to treat complicated and rare genetic conditions.
“We need to change things and show how determined parents can forge a path for other families encountering similar obstacles,” she says. “We need to find treatments for incurable diseases. We need to give other people hope. We need to start saving lives.”
His parents fought persistently to take Charlie to the United States for an experimental treatment. Yates and Gard said they knew the chance of the experimental treatment working was slim – about 10 percent, but they wanted to try anyway for Charlie’s sake.
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However, the courts and hospital refused to allow them to transfer their son to another hospital. About a month ago, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the hospital can remove Charlie’s life support and allow him to die.
Questions remain about whether Charlie could have benefited from the experimental treatment, had it not been delayed for months during the legal battle. The court battle began in March.
U.S. neurologist Dr. Michio Hirano, an expert in the field, previously said Charlie had an 11 percent to 56 percent chance of benefiting from the experimental treatment. However, when Hirano and a group of doctors examined Charlie two weeks ago, they said he no longer had a chance of benefiting from the treatment.
After Hirano gave his final opinion, Connie Yates and Chris Gard decided to end the legal battle to get their son experimental treatment. Based on the new evidence, the couple said Charlie’s condition had deteriorated too much and there no longer was any hope of the experimental treatment working.
On Friday, the news broke that Charlie had died after his life support was removed.Leading pro-life advocates mourned Charlie’s death — saying it is a very concerning harbinger of things to come.
After Charlie’s death on Friday, his parents spent the weekend mourning with their family,according to The Sun.
“We should be planning Charlie’s first birthday but instead we’re planning his funeral,” his mother said.
Despite all of his problems, Charlie’s parents – and millions like them – believe that Charlie is a valuable, living human being who should be given a chance to live.
Leading pro-life advocates helped Charlie’s parents fight for his life. Pope Francis and President Donald Trump also expressed support for the sick infant.
Charlie’s parents brought Terri Schiavo’s brother Bobby Schindler to London to help them fight for care for their son. Schindler spoke with LifeNews exclusively about their invitation.
Schindler told LifeNews: “The critical issue here is not a political one, but the simple notion that families know what is best for their loved ones.
“Charlie’s situation is very reminiscent of my family’s battle to save my sister, Terri. Hopefully being here can help his parents, Connie and Charlie, deal with the day-to-day emotional roller coaster, as they fight for their son’s right to live,” Schindler added.

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