Clinic That Won’t Revive Baby Born Alive After Failed Abortion to Face Protests
by Steven Ertelt | Phoenix, AZ | LifeNews.com | 6/2/13 11:26 AM
An abortion clinic depicted in a shocking undercover video showing abortion clinic staffers saying they will not revive babies who are born alive after failed abortions will face protests this week.
Live Action released an undercover video exposing Phoenix, Arizona-based late-term abortion doctor Laura Mercer and an abortion center counselor who 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, Linda, an abortion center 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?
Linda: Uh-uh… No…They do not resuscitate.
Now Live Action has announced that the abortion clinic will face protests:
The rally is put on by Live Action and Center for Arizona Policy will “call upon the legislature to pass legislation allowing for the Department of Health Services to perform unannounced inspections at abortion clinics.” Currently, abortion clinics are the only medical facilities in the state that are not allowed to have these types of inspections. The rally will also call for the “true protection and empowerment of women, and the revocation of Family Planning Associates Medical Group’s license.”Those interested in attending at instructed to meet at Family Planning Associates Medical Group, 1331 North 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85006 on Thursday, June 6, at noon. Schedule speakers are as follows:
- Lila Rose; President and founder of the pro-life group, Live Action
- Cathi Herrod; President of Center for Arizona Policy
- Senator Nancy Barto, Legislative District 15
- Melanie Pritchard; Executive Director, Foundation for Life and Love
- Vanessa Tedesco, Post-Abortive speaker with Silent No More
Doctor Mercer tells an undercover Live Action investigator who is 24 weeks pregnant:
We do the injection, which is a quick poke through your belly, um, and that stops the fetal heart, so that makes it so, if you were to deliver, there shouldn’t be movement. There shouldn’t be any of those things… Yes we induce a demise–an intrauterine demise… Um, death.
Then Live Action investigator asks whether an ambulance should be called if the mother goes into labor during the two-day procedure. Dr. Mercer instructs the investigator not to call:
No, call us first…if you showed up in an average emergency room with an emergency room physician who’s not a gynecologist, probably has never seen or done a termination, they will treat you as though you are somebody with a desired pregnancy…
Investigator: So they would basically like try to take care of it.
Dr. Mercer: Right they would intervene and do all kinds of crazy things that you don’t need to have done to you…
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