Dr. Carhart is a late term abortionist. One article says the following:
17 weeks, D &Es can be done at this point
Carhart said at least once a month, an entire fetus is expelled from the mother during a D&E he is performing. “The fetuses are alive at the time of delivery,” he said. There is a heartbeat “very frequently.”
KEVIN O’HANLON Doctor: Law Would Outlaw Many Abortions AP Online April 2, 2004
“Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote some witnesses report “seeing the body of the fetus moving outside the woman’s body. At this point, the abortion procedure has the appearance of a live birth.”
“Reason To Shudder” By Richard Cohen “The Washington Post” Tues, Jul 4, 2000 A19
24 weeks, partial birth abortions were done around this timeShare on Facebook
“I have been in the same unfortunate position as the nurses in the story…doing everything medically possible to save a one baby while monitoring 2-3 aborted babies that are only 2 weeks younger, waiting up to 8 hours for them to die. It is heart-breaking and you keep asking yourself why.”
Sarah Terzo “Babies born alive after abortions, part 3: nurses tell their stories”Live Action April 12, 2013
I work in Labor and Delivery…we don’t perform elective abortions on our unit, but we do terminate in cases of infection in the amniotic fluid and or risk to the mother, or if the water has broken and not replenished, and the baby is not viable. Yes it’s hard to watch these little ones live after they are born, sometimes they have heartbeats for several hours, but many times they are so small that their eyes and mouths are still fused together…unable to pass a tube through. The difference is that the babies I deal with are wanted….and are mourned by their parents and families. We provide comfort, warmth, and love to these little ones for the short time they are here. We make memory boxes for the families with footprints, molds, and pictures. I can’t imagine working anywhere where this is a “choice.” We also provide our mothers with a high standard of medical care…. from what I am reading these clinics are full of filth and unsafe conditions and treat the women poorly
“(Live births) are little known because organized medicine, from fear of public clamor and legal action, treats them more as an embarrassment to be hushed up than a problem to be solved. It’s like turning yourself in to the IRS for an audit.” Cates said. “What is there to gain? The tendency is not to report because there are only negative incentives.”~
Willard Cates, M.D., former head of the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service as quoted in “Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” ; Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 2, 1981
“There was one week when there were two live births in the same week. And just, you know, there’s this baby crying on the floor while all these women are in the process of trying to deal with their feelings about aborting their babies. One survived for a while.
[Interviewer] how did the mothers react who gave birth to the live babies?
Well. This one, she didn’t talk much. The mother delivered when there was no one there and there was some period when the mother was holding the baby. And it was grabbing onto her.… She was extremely upset by this whole thing.”
Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital (New York: Basic Books inc 1976) 79
Planned Parenthood has reached a new low – in testimony against a bill that would make it mandatory for babies born alive during botched abortions to be given medical care and transport to a hospital, Planned Parenthood defended the practice of letting these infants die – saying that it should be between the doctor and the mother. Watch the video.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson discusses the reality of babies born alive during saline abortions. A saline abortion consisted of injecting a poisonous saline solution into a woman’s uterus which killed the baby (or was supposed to.) then the woman went through labor to expel the baby. It caused so many live births that saline abortions were discontinued in the 1980s.
“When we had live births in the early saline period (1965 – 1970), the nurses, to their everlasting credit, reacted in the instinctively proper manner when they saw that the tiny newborn was gasping or moving. They invariably instituted rigorous resuscitative measures, carried the baby to the premature nursery, and demanded the customary standards of care for it. The doctors were caught in the dilemma of being the adversary of alpha [Nathanson’s term for the fetus/aborted baby] in performing the abortion and, in an instant, becoming obstetricians committed to the newborn’s safety. Neatly trapped by definitions, taught from medical school that an “abortus” is only a pathology specimen, we stood gawking at the wiggling, gasping baby, paralyzed by the paradox.”
Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) page 273
24 weeks, saline abortions were often done at this time. Abortions at this stage are still legal in the US
A lawsuit was aimed at the Queen’s Park Hospital in England, after an abortion led to a live birth:
From the “My Beautiful Abortion Baby” Lancashire Evening Telegraph, first published Wednesday 1st Nov 1995.
Office manager Julie Robb, 38, was admitted to Queen’s Park Hospital for a “therapeutic termination” after a scan revealed that her 23-week-old foetus could have serious abnormalities, [(cerebral palsy, water on the brain, or downs’ syndrome)]…. A team of medics induced Mrs Robb who gave birth to Elizabeth, weighing 696 grams (1lb 8oz), at 2.25am on December 7 last year
According to the testimony of medical experts, the baby “gasped” after it was born and showed signs of life.Also had heartbeat. The team (2 midwives and 2 specialists) decided not to revive the baby. Death certificate showed baby was alive for 90 minutes, Medical personnel testified it was less than 35 minutes.
Verdict was in favor of hospital
There have actually been many similar cases of babies born alive after abortions.
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which became law in 2001, forbids hospitals and clinics from aborting babies alive and leaving them to die. It was opposed by a number of pro-choice groups. It was also voted against by Barack Obama, then a senator.
An abortion clinic employee said she watched as the doctor put a living fetus in a plastic bag and in a bucket:
“And [he] just waited until it stopped moving.”
Yet another employee said that during late abortions, the doctor would walk in, close and lock the door, tell staff to look away when the fetuses were extracted, and warned that:
“If you see any movement or anything, you don’t see anything, you don’t know anything.”
New York times 4/29/84; Des Moines Register 5/5/84; El Paso County offense report number 00 – 380101; El Paso times, 9/22/83, 4/5/81 – 4/8/81, Dallas Morning News, 4/20/84; Dallas Times Herald, 9/29/83
