Ana Rosa, a child who survived abortion

Ana Rosa Rodriguez is the name of the little gem who appears to the left. She is a child who survived an abortion attempt. Sadly she lost a limb during the procedure. While I do think it is important that pro life people honestly acknowledge that the vast majority of abortions occur before the end of the 12th week and with each subsequent week of pregnancy abortions become increasingly less common it is also dishonest for pro-choice people to deny that later term abortions exist or the context for them being performed. Ana's mother was not facing a risk to her physical life or any special medical issues with her daughter - she had social and economic reasons.

Youth for life has a website that profiles abortion survivors and I have taken excerpts from the section that speaks to Ana's story. A review of their site will give more information about other survivors. joseromia.tripod.com/survivors.html

If you look closely at this young girl you'll notice that this child is missing her right arm. That's because her arm was ripped off in the process of an abortion on New York's Lower East Side in October of 1991. Ana Rosa was 32 weeks old at the time of the abortion. It was performed by legal abortionist Abu Hayat. Rosa, Ana Rosa's mother (who was only 20 years old at the time), had told Hayat that she had changed her mind and didn’t want to go through with the abortion.
"He said that it was impossible to stop, that I had to continue," Rosa told New York Newsday. According to Rosa, Hayat’s assistants held her down while he sedated her. When she awoke, she was told that the abortion was incomplete and that she should come back the following day. That evening, however, she experienced increasing pain and bleeding. Her mother took her to Jamaica Hospital by taxi, where, five hours later, baby Ana Rosa was born. Aside from the loss of her right arm, Ana Rosa is a perfectly healthy little girl.
As unfortunate as the maiming of Ana Rosa was, she and her mother are very lucky they escaped from Hayat without further injury. Other incidents Hayat, a member of the National Abortion Federation, was involved in:
On September 18, 1990, Hayat performed an abortion on 17 year old Sophie McCoy. The next day she was taken to a hospital and found to have a perforated uterus and sepsis. An emergency hysterectomy was performed, but Sophie developed disseminated intravascular coagulopahty and died on September 26. Sophie's mother found paperwork for Hayat's facility in Sophie's coat pocket. The case was reported to the district attorney and the New York Health Department, but nobody took any action against Hayat
In March 1991, Hayat refused to complete an abortion on Marie Moise after he demanded an additional payment of $500 in the middle of the abortion and Moise's husband could not pay the $500. He forced the woman to leave the clinic bleeding and with an incomplete abortion. She nearly died from the resulting infection.
There have been several allegations accusing Hayat of sexually assaulting/fondling his abortion patients. Even though all of the above happened before Ana Rosa's brush with Hayat, these previous incidents were not considered "serious enough" by New York authorities to take any action against Hayat. The maiming of Ana Rosa may have also gone ignored except that it drew intense media scrutiny. When news broke of Hayat's arrest in connection with the assault on Ana Rosa, at least seven women called a police hotline to claim he had also botched their abortions.

Look at the picture of Ana Rosa Rodriguez on the left. At first glance, she might look like an average little girl to you. However, if you look closely, you'll notice that this child is missing her right arm. That's because her arm was ripped off in the process of an abortion on New York's Lower East Side in October of 1991. Ana Rosa was 32 weeks old at the time of the abortion. It was performed by legal abortionist Abu Hayat. Rosa, Ana Rosa's mother (who was only 20 years old at the time), had told Hayat that she had changed her mind and didn’t want to go through with the abortion.
"He said that it was impossible to stop, that I had to continue," Rosa told New York Newsday. According to Rosa, Hayat’s assistants held her down while he sedated her. When she awoke, she was told that the abortion was incomplete and that she should come back the following day. That evening, however, she experienced increasing pain and bleeding. Her mother took her to Jamaica Hospital by taxi, where, five hours later, baby Ana Rosa was born. Aside from the loss of her right arm, Ana Rosa is a perfectly healthy little girl.
As unfortunate as the maiming of Ana Rosa was, she and her mother are very lucky they escaped from Hayat without further injury. Other incidents Hayat, a member of the National Abortion Federation, was involved in:
On September 18, 1990, Hayat performed an abortion on 17 year old Sophie McCoy. The next day she was taken to a hospital and found to have a perforated uterus and sepsis. An emergency hysterectomy was performed, but Sophie developed disseminated intravascular coagulopahty and died on September 26. Sophie's mother found paperwork for Hayat's facility in Sophie's coat pocket. The case was reported to the district attorney and the New York Health Department, but nobody took any action against Hayat
In March 1991, Hayat refused to complete an abortion on Marie Moise after he demanded an additional payment of $500 in the middle of the abortion and Moise's husband could not pay the $500. He forced the woman to leave the clinic bleeding and with an incomplete abortion. She nearly died from the resulting infection.
There have been several allegations accusing Hayat of sexually assaulting/fondling his abortion patients. Even though all of the above happened before Ana Rosa's brush with Hayat, these previous incidents were not considered "serious enough" by New York authorities to take any action against Hayat. The maiming of Ana Rosa may have also gone ignored except that it drew intense media scrutiny. When news broke of Hayat's arrest in connection with the assault on Ana Rosa, at least seven women called a police hotline to claim he had also botched their abortions.

While this is a story in the United States of America there is some evidence that late term abortions are occuring in Canada and/or Canadian health care is supporting mothers with the cost of abortions in the United States of America when they are late term abortions and unavailable otherwise. The Conservative Party of Canada had an opportunity to address this issue at their last convention. A member had brought forward a motion for the party to be against late term abortions, a view in keeping with most Canadians, but it was not successful. The decision was not to take any position on it and to support the status quo. A position even more pro-choice than the NDP! The party went further when Mr. Harper promised in 2006 during the election to do anything he could to ensure that legislation was not brought forward on the issue of abortion. Efforts by pro-life MP's who are Conservative have been squashed. It appears that Mr. Harper keeps his promises!!

Understandably Ana's mother made the decision to favour privacy for her child and she has not been publicly identified since she was four years of age. She is 14 years old now. Perhaps when she is an adult she will become a messenger in the same way Gianna Jensen is. She can come and speak before the undecided and the pro-choice and share her testimony. They can then answer within their own hearts how they could ignore this situation. Perhaps one day the Stephen Harper's, the Svend Robinson's, and the Ted Kennedy's of the world who so feverishly support the right to choose will be able to look into the eyes of a young woman with one arm and explain why her life didn't matter to them.