Inhuman

Details: 10 May 2013

The murder trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell prompted pro-life super woman Lila Rose to do what she does best: undercover investigation of the abortion industry. As a college student, Ms. Rose founded Live Action (www.liveaction.org) and, through undercover investigations, exposed nefarious practices of the abortion behemoth, Planned Parenthood.

Live Action’s latest project, entitled "Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry," is a six-month investigation that reveals "illegal, inhuman, and gruesome practices at abortion centers across the country," demonstrating that Gosnell is not alone.

In three different late-term abortion mills (Bronx, N.Y., Washington, D.C, and Phoenix), Live Action sent undercover pregnant women to find out what the abortionist would do if the late-term baby survived the abortion. The videos, posted at www.liveaction.org/inhuman, "document the blatantly inhuman and barbaric acts of abortionists leaving crying babies to die, or even killing the newborns themselves."

Here are some excerpts from the Live Action website:

The Bronx, NY abortion counselor is caught on tape describing, in gruesomely precise terms, how late-term abortions happen. She details what is done with a baby after the abortion and advises to "flush" the baby down the toilet if he or she is delivered at home before the final stage of the two- or three-day abortion procedure.

"If it comes out, then it comes out. Flush it. … if anything, you know, put it in a bag or something or somewhere and bring it to us."

When Live Action’s undercover investigator asks what happens to the baby after the abortion – or what the clinic would do if, after the abortion, the baby is moving – the counselor says:

"If it did come out in one piece, it’s very small. So they would still have to put it in a container – like, a jar – with solution and send it to the lab."

When asked what happens if the baby after the abortion is breathing or twitching, the Bronx counselor responds:

"The solution will make it stop. It’s not going to be moving around in the jar … that’s the whole purpose of the solution. It’ll automatically stop. It won’t be able to… not with the solution."

Washington, D.C. abortion doctor Cesare Santangelo tells an undercover Live Action investigator who is 24 weeks pregnant: "Hopefully we’ll get this pregnancy out intact, but it doesn’t always happen that way. I try and sever the umbilical cord first, and we wait for that to stop pulsing, and this way the fetus is expired first."

When asked by the undercover investigator what would happen if the baby were to survive the abortion, Doctor Santangelo responds:

"Technically – you know, legally we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive. But, you know, it probably wouldn’t. It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point. Let’s say you went into labor, the membranes ruptured, and you delivered before we got to the termination part of the procedure here, you know? Then we would do things – we would – we would not help it."

A Phoenix late-term abortion doctor Laura Mercer and her "counselor" said they would leave a newborn, struggling for life after a failed abortion, to die. When asked by the undercover investigator what would happen if the baby were to survive the abortion, the counselor admits they would not help the baby:

"Sometimes they are [alive], yeah. But it doesn’t... it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will come out whole. ‘Cause they use suction, plus they use instruments so sometimes the fetuses don’t come out... you know, it’s not complete." Investigator: But if it does come out whole… I mean, are–will they resuscitate it? Like, will I have to take care of it? Counselor: "Uh-uh… No… They do not resuscitate."

Such cold, callous brutality is unconscionable and an indictment on our entire nation. It also violates the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act which requires life-saving medical care for any baby surviving an abortion.

The fact that 1.2 million abortions take place in our nation every year and at least 20,000 occur after 20 weeks gestation is staggering. We can only hope that this focus on late-term abortions will shock our nation out of its apathy toward this brutality.

You can contact Greg at The Nebraska Catholic Conference, 215 Centennial Mall South Suite 310, Lincoln, NE 68508; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.