live action uses the journalism techniques made famous by mike wallace and morley safer 50 years ago on 60 minutes
yesterday's sting video exposed emily's women's center in the bronx, which sucks out 23 week fetuses, usually tearing them into pieces in the process
if a delivery is breathing it is put in a jar with a toxic solution
if you deliver on your own outside the clinic, "flush it"
(link above)
all of which appears legal in the bronx
today live action stings surgi-clinic in washington dc, where dr santangelo is a talkative fellow
“Hopefully we’ll get this pregnancy out intact, but it doesn’t always happen that way,” abortion doctor Cesare Santangelo says on the video, to a 24-week pregnant undercover Live Action investigator. “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 the undercover Live Action investigator presses Santangelo on what would happen if the baby was born alive, the doctor responds that there are things he can do to make sure that she does not take the child home with her.
“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,” he said on the undercover video.
“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?” he continued. “Then we would do things — we would — we would not help it. We wouldn’t intubate. It would be, you know, uh, a person, a terminal person in the hospital, let’s say, that had cancer, you know? You wouldn’t do any extra procedures to help that person survive. Like ‘do not resuscitate’ orders. We would do the same things here.”
Video: DC abortionist says he would not assist baby born alive | The Daily Caller
live action published a statement:
“Our videos expose the truly gruesome, illegal, and inhuman practices going on inside many of America’s abortion clinics. Our investigation reveals that these inhuman practices are just another day at the office for abortionists and their staff.”
so there's wilmington, emily's in the bronx, surgi-clinic in dc, and 3801 lancaster...
that we know about
this is what bloomberg is pointing to when it ponders: "live births do, in fact, happen during late-term abortions"
it drives the beast: "sometimes these fetuses are delivered alive"
and: "worse, it hints at what we might be doing inside the womb to ensure that the other ones aren't"
so that's the big question---how many late term abortions in this country fail to kill the target and end up with a baby breathing or twitching or swimming in a toilet?
the choicers' chief concern centering around gosnell is---there are a lot more post-birth abortions going down around here than gramma ever suspected
wapo weighs in, "raising questions about what might happen to a baby as a result of an unsuccessful abortion"
In an interview with The Washington Post, Santangelo said he was trying to reassure the woman, who turned out to be an undercover operative of the group, Live Action. In reality, he said, he would call 9-1-1. But he said he stands by what he said on tape.
“What I said is, basically I wouldn’t do anything extraordinary,” he said Saturday. “We would call EMS. We would call 9-1-1. But I wouldn’t do intubation or anything. . . . You let nature take its course.”
Antiabortion group releases videos of clinic workers discussing live births - The Washington Post
wapo emphasizes that dr santangelo has done nothing criminal
wapo legitimately provides a platform for the director of emily's in the bronx to announce that her worker misspoke and live births do not occur at her clinic
(dr santangelo oughta give her a call)
live action claims illegality:
"abortion doctors are willing to kill babies in violation of the federal born-alive infants protection act of 2002, which requires them to try to save a child born during a failed abortion using the same measures used in miscarriages or preterm births at the same stage of pregnancy"
wapo looks at the movements in arkansas and north dakota to ban abortion after 12 weeks
wapo gets to the point:
More than 88 percent of the 1.2 million abortions performed each year in the United States are done in the first trimester, and most doctors will not perform them beyond 24 weeks because of moral qualms, legal concerns or lack of experience. Barely 1 percent of procedures — perhaps about 15,000 each year — are done after 21 weeks. At 37 weeks, a baby is generally considered full-term. No group has statistics on how many fetuses survive an abortion, experts said.
barely one percent of abortions are done after 21 weeks?
are dr gosnell's hundreds, even thousands of operations over the years included in that stat?
live action promises more to come---just how many clinics around america are willing to discuss what they do when botched abortions start breathing?
