LeRoy Carhart is something of a rockstar among late-term abortionists. The two Supreme Court decisions on partial-birth abortion decisions bear his name: Stenberg v. Carhart, which overturned the state of Nebraska’s ban in 2000, and Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the federal ban in 2007. The heroic subject of a film screened at Sundance and a Newsweek puff piece, Carhart has been portrayed in the media as a brave man willing to face threats of violence in order to help women procure abortions in the second- and third-trimester of pregnancy.
Carhart has claimed that he will only perform late-term abortions when there is a serious issue, such as when the health of the mother is at stake or when the baby suffers from a severe disability. “Carhart has a few firm lines; he won’t, for example, do elective abortions past 24 weeks, because the fetus is likely viable,” Sarah Kliff reported for Newsweek in 2009. “It just makes sense to me,” Carhart told Newsweek. “After a certain point in time, the fetus is viable and we have to look at it differently than if it were not viable.”
Carhart’s deadline for killing a healthy, viable baby has apparently moved back a month or so. A new undercover video from the group Live Action shows Carhart telling a woman 26 weeks pregnant that he can and will perform a “purely elective” abortion on the baby in Maryland up to 28 weeks (7 months) gestation.
Woman: Not that I know of.
Dr. Carhart: OK, I don’t know where that came from or how that got in here…
Woman: Does that mean, fetal indication?
Dr. Carhart: Means there’s something wrong with the baby and that’s why you’re terminating.
Woman: Yeah. No.
Dr. Carhart: This is just purely elective.
Woman: Purely, this is what I wanna do.
Dr. Carhart: And here (coughs) [in Nebraska] we cannot do it, but in Maryland we can do it…
Woman: So, a baby at this age, what am I, 26 weeks?
Dr. Carhart: 26.
Woman: Could not survive? If it was delivered?
Dr. Carhart: If it came out, oh yeah, it probably–probably could, probably. It would be a 50/50 thing, probably.
Woman: Oh, oh, OK.
Dr. Carhart: But we’re OK, we can do by law in Maryland, we can go to 28 weeks, so.
And even that deadline at 28 weeks is not firm in Maryland. A separate investigation of Maryland abortion doctor James Pendergraft from a few years back revealed that Pendergraft would perform a third-trimester abortion if a woman was experiencing “anxiety and stress.”
Keep in mind that there is never a medical reason to perform the late-term lethal injection abortions offered on-demand by the likes of Carhart and Pendergraft.
In theis procedure, the doctor kills the child in utero by injecting poison into her heart then induces labor to deliver the dead baby. There is no medical reason not to simply induce labor and deliver a live baby.
This is the reality of late-term aboriton in America.
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“No woman carries their child to six, seven, eight months and then one day decides they don’t want to become a parent,” said Ilyse Hogue, the president of Naral Pro-Choice America. “These are terrible, tragic situations where families have to make difficult choices with their doctors. I think most Americans believe that’s where they belong.”
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Shouldn’t the Daily Beast correct this false claim?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/08/14/the-abortion-evangelist.print.html
