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Abortion: Mother tells how clinic workers left her born-alive infant to die | Lynn Vincent

New details are emerging in the case of Angele, 34, a woman who says she gave birth to a live pre-term baby at a Florida late-term abortion clinic—and that the child died after abortion workers refused to render aid or call for emergency help.

WORLD on April 27 obtained transcripts of 911 tapes, plus fire and police department reports on the incident, which occurred April 2 at the EPOC Clinic, an Orlando abortion business owned by late-term specialist James S. Pendergraft. Those documents verify many aspects of Angele’s story—and raise serious questions about whether clinic personnel deceived emergency workers when they arrived on the scene.

Angele told WORLD she feared for the safety of herself and her two children if she carried to term her 23-week pregnancy. (For the same reason, she asked that only her first name be used.) “I had been terrorized. . . . I didn’t feel I had any other choice,” she said.