[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.]
By Cassy Fiano-Chesser
Live Action News
A woman who went into premature labor at home called 9-1-1 for help, but the negligence of the EMTs who responded to the call directly contributed to the death of her baby. Now, both EMTs have had their licenses suspended by the Rhode Island Department of Health.
On August 1, Shawn Hoyle and Jarrod Martin responded to a call regarding a woman in labor. According to the investigation, when they arrived, the mother was in the bathroom, having already delivered her baby. She had left the umbilical cord intact, and her baby was in the toilet. Martin and Hoyle cut the umbilical cord and, leaving the premature baby in the toilet, took the mother into the living room to attend to her.
When they returned to the bathroom, they said the baby didn’t have a pulse and didn’t respond when they tapped his or her foot. Rather than engaging in neonatal resuscitation as required, they merely wrapped the baby in a towel and then placed the baby into a biohazard bag.
The mother was taken by ambulance to Landmark Medical Center while her baby was still in the biohazard bag. After the mother was taken into the emergency room, the baby was left in the biohazard bag in the ambulance, ignored until a doctor asked about the child. A charge nurse retrieved the baby, the hospital staff were able to find a pulse, and resuscitation was attempted. Unfortunately, it was too late at this point, and the baby passed away.
Sadly, infants being left to die in toilets is not an uncommon occurrence. Children born alive after abortions are also left to die, with abortion staffers routinely telling patients to leave the bodies in the toilet. A 2013 Live Action undercover video shows a counselor and abortionist advising a young woman to sit on the toilet to give birth if she goes into labor unexpectedly during her late-term abortion procedure.
This is not a case of a woman giving birth unwittingly after an abortion, but a mother who was calling for help and wanted her baby saved. Instead, her baby was left to die by the very people she trusted to help.
[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.]
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