Between the conviction of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and last week’s 13-hour filibuster by Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis, late-term abortions have become the subject of contentious debate. And a new video from a pro-life group is sure to add fuel to the fire.
Live Action, the nonprofit pro-life group started by Lila Rose, just released the sixth video in its ongoing investigative series “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Late-Term Abortion Industry,” and the footage is once again disturbing. The 6-minute video shows staff members at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, abortion clinic telling women to deliver their dead children into toilets.
Live Action’s 27-week-pregnant investigator met with counselors and abortion doctors at Southwestern Women’s Options, uncovering the clinic’s practice of leaving women alone in hotel rooms to deliver into toilets.
“You’ll want to unlock the door to the hotel room, get your cell phone and just sit on the toilet,” an unnamed counselor told the Live Action investigator at one point during the video. “You don’t have to look at anything, you can just stay on the phone with us until the doctor and nurse get there.”
This type of room-service abortion — a three-day procedure in which the fetus is first injected with a toxin, followed by induced labor to deliver it and finally the birth of the stillborn — was nothing new to Live Action President Lila Rose.
“The room service [abortion] is actually plush,” Rose told Red Alert Politics. “It happens all over the abortion industry. It’s a gross negligence against the protection of these women. They are subjecting her to a multi-day, traumatic abortion procedure and then making her go to a hotel room where she has to deliver a dead baby over a toilet.”
In some instances, according to Rose, the child can be born unexpectedly while a woman is driving or in another potentially dangerous situation.
“Beyond that, sometimes these babies come out born alive and [many] of these abortionists admit to killing it alive,” Rose said.
Following its investigation into Southwestern Women’s Options, Live Action released reports about the clinic to authorities and the state legislature, hoping some of the startling revelations would be addressed.
“I think that legislators and the governor should fight for legislation to shut these clinics down, and they should pass laws to protect children in the womb,” Rose said.
Just last week, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) attempted to pass a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks, though a filibuster by Davis (D-Fort Worth) resulted in the bill’s temporary defeat. Rose was not impressed by Davis’ filibuster, nor the praise from abortion advocates that followed.
“Wendy Davis was standing for hours for the death of children who are pain-capable and many of whom are able to survive outside the womb,” Rose said.
