An undercover investigation into two late-term abortion clinics has revealed that one clinic worker advised a patient to “flush” a baby delivered at home before an abortion procedure could take place. Another clinic worker said that the clinic “would not help” an infant born alive during an abortion.
Two undercover videos, part of an investigation by pro-life group Live Action, revealed that practices like that of late-term abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell on trial in Pennsylvania, can be found elsewhere in the United States, including Washington D.C. and New York.
The investigation into America’s late-term abortion industry uncovered one Bronx, NY clinic employee telling a patient concerned about the baby twitching or breathing that the clinic would put the baby in a jar of “solution” to “make it stop.” After expressing concern that she’d go into labor and deliver the baby at home before the abortion was scheduled, the employee told the pregnant woman to “flush it.”
Live Action has previously used undercover investigation tactics to expose Planned Parenthood centers that failed to report the sexual abuse of minors.
In a video filmed at a clinic in Washington D.C., Dr. Cesare Santangelo is heard telling a patient 24 weeks pregnant that if her baby was delivered alive during an abortion that they “would not help” the child. He admits that “technically … legally we would be obligated to help it,” but then compared the baby to a terminally ill person, hospitalized with cancer that has a “do not resuscitate” order.
After the video was released this morning, Dr. Santangelo called Live Action “terrorists” in a statement to The Washington Post. Live Action founder Lila Rose fired back in a statement via email, stating that Dr. Santangelo’s comment “is a desperate attempt to distract from his own horrific actions. The numbness Dr. Santangelo displays to his victims is both heart-breaking and shocking.”
Late-term abortion practices have come under scrutiny lately with the highly publicized trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who is on trial in Pennsylvania and charged with killing at least four babies born alive in what the district attorney calls a “house of horrors.”
Live Action’s goal with the “Inhuman” investigation series was to expose the truth about late-term abortion practices and their employees not complying with federal law to protect the life of those babies that survive abortions. The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 defined legal personhood to include those infants born alive resulting from a failed abortion attempt, guaranteeing them protection as United States citizens.
Watch the video below of the Bronx clinic investigation, but be warned that the content may be disturbing.
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