LeRoy Carhard compared a dead unborn baby to meat.
Four new videos released by Live Action show that the killing of newborns is not as unusual an occurrence in American abortion mills as abortion advocates like to claim. In the undercover footage, a part of the organization’s new investigation, “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry,” the actress is assured by staff that her baby would not be permitted to survive the procedure.
In the first undercover video, recorded at Dr. Emily Women’s Health Centre in the Bronx, New York, the actress, who says she is 23 weeks pregnant, asked whether the baby, which the employee admitted was “fully grown,” would come out “in one piece.” The worker said no and that it starts “falling apart.” She also informed the actress that once the abortion is over, the baby would be put in a toxic solution in a jar and sent to a lab to ensure that none of its parts were left in the woman.
When asked by the mother what would happen if the baby was still moving, the employee replied, “the solution will make it stop … it will automatically stop. It won’t be able to breathe anymore. Not in the – not with the solution.” The employee elaborates: “Once you start this today, that’s it. You’re not gonna see it, we’re not gonna show you your sonogram pictures.”
If the baby comes out at home, which the worker claims had never happened in her experience, she advises the mother to “flush it.” If the child lands on the floor, “we’ll tell you to put it in a bag or something or somewhere and bring it to us.”
Judie Brown, president and co-founder of American Life League, commented on her blog in reaction to the Live Action video, “one would think this woman is talking about a piece of meat, not a baby.”
In the second video, an actress with a 24 week pregnancy visited the Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C., and met with the abortionist, Cesare Santangelo. He described his abortion method in the video, which is to cut the umbilical cord and wait for the baby to die before delivering. When asked if the baby could come out alive, he acknowledged it was possible, but claimed it never happened at his facility. “I mean, technically, you know, legally, we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive,” Santangelo explained. “But, you know, it probably wouldn’t. It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point…if you do everything possible to help it survive, you know, there’s a – maybe 20 to 30 per cent chance that it would survive. If you don’t do anything, then, you know, the chances are much, much less,” he said. Santangelo reassured the Live Action actress that “we would not help it” and compared an abortion survivor to a terminal cancer patient: “You wouldn’t do any extra procedures to help that person survive.”
In the third video, Live Action’s actress, about 24 weeks pregnant, visited the Family Planning Associates Medical Group in Phoenix and spoke with late term abortionist Laura Mercer. She said that they “induce … an intrauterine demise” by injecting Digoxin to stop the heartbeat and then usually taking the baby out “in pieces.” The actress asked about how developed the child was. She replied, “it’s not fully developed. Um, it doesn’t even look like – it doesn’t even look like a baby yet.” She admitted it had its organs and “parts” and “kind of” a face.
A counsellor told the patient that she could choose to have an abortion without the Digoxin, but then “it’s possible that there may be movement as they’re taking out the fetus” which usually “stops on its own.” If the baby, however, comes out whole, the counsellor said, “they will not resuscitate.”
In the fourth investigation, Live Action made two visits to LeRoy Carhart’s abortion mill in Nebraska. Jennifer Morbelli had died from a botched abortion by Carhart earlier this year. Carhart compared having a dead baby in the body for three days to “putting meat in a Crock-Pot” after the actress asked whether it would decay – he said it would be “soft” and “mushy” when it came out. He said he would give the mother a pack in case she delivers the baby at the hotel. “And I think out of respect and love and honour for this baby that you’ve lost, you will find yourself being a better person,” Carhart said.
These videos come in the wake of evidence that despite the medical treatment guaranteed by the Born Alive Infants Protection Act to abortion survivors, they are still often allowed to die in the United States. Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of homicide after cutting the spinal cords of newborns. Moreover, spokesman Alisa LaPolt Snow from Florida’s Planned Parenthood branch testified before a state subcommittee against a bill assuring medical care for abortion survivors, saying that the fate of a baby born after an abortion should be “between the patient and the health care provider.” Florida Rep. Cary Pigman revealed that 1,270 were reported to have died after a failed abortion in the United States.
“The new Live Action investigation,” pro-life blogger and nurse Jill Stanek said, “is proving what pro-lifers already knew: Kermit Gosnell was no outlier, as the abortion industry and media have tried to portray him.” Stanek added: “Both overt and covert killing of abortion survivors is a component of late-term abortions.”
