Labour of Love head leaves AN EMBATTLED Shari Daniels, Clinical Director of the Labour of Love Birth Centre, yesterday gave up all hope of having the facility reopened, after its application to have the Supreme Court suspend the closure of the Centre was adjourned sine die (without a date being fixed). Attorneys acting for Labour of Love have agreed not to proceed to seek to have the centre reopened and will instead await the determination of a judicial review set for hearing in the Supreme Court on June 18. Within a few hours of the court adjournment yesterday, Mrs. Daniels left Jamaica for her home in Miami, where Labour of Love's international headquarters is located. "No businessperson involved in the health field can consistently do battle with a government that doesn't want it, especially if you are a foreigner," she said in a letter to the public issued shortly before her departure. Mrs. Daniels said she was proud the women of Jamaica had united to fight for their reproductive rights and noted that in addition to an imminent lawsuit for losses incurred by Labour of Love, Government will also be facing legal action from individual clients for invasion of privacy in seizing their records and for other damages. (See follow-up story next).
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