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Abortion Doctor: I Would Leave Babies to Die Born Alive After Abortion
Life News ^ | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 04/29/2013 10:22:01 AM PDT by Morgana

In a second undercover video Live Action has released in two days, another abortion clinic staffer acknowledges leaving babies to die following failed abortions. The videos show there are other abortion clinics, abortion practitioners and staff who, like Kermit Gosnell, would leave babies to die after failed abortions.

First, the pro-life group released a video showing an abortion facility staff member saying an unborn child born alive after a botched abortion should just be flushed down the toilet. In this second video, leading D.C. late-term abortion doctor Cesare Santengelo admits he would leave a baby struggling for life after a failed abortion to die.

The video is the second in a series of undercover videos, found at www.liveaction.org/inhuman, involving a number of late-term abortion clinics engaging in illegal and inhuman practices, as well as explaining in graphic terms what happens to the victims of late-term abortion.

“Hopefully we’ll get this pregnancy out intact, but it doesn’t always happen that way,” Washington, D.C. abortion doctor Cesare Santangelo tells an undercover Live Action investigator who is 24 weeks pregnant. “I try and sever the umbilical cord first, and we wait for that to stop pulsing, and this way the fetus is expired first.”

When asked by the undercover investigator what would happen if the baby were to survive the abortion, Doctor Santangelo responds:

“Technically – you know, legally we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive. But, you know, it probably wouldn’t. It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point. Let’s say you went into labor, the membranes ruptured, and you delivered before we got to the termination part of the procedure here, you know? Then we would do things – we would – we would not help it. We wouldn’t intubate. It would be, you know, uh, a person, a terminal person in the hospital, let’s say, that had cancer, you know? You wouldn’t do any extra procedures to help that person survive. Like ‘do not resuscitate’ orders. We would do the same things here.”

Live Action President Lila Rose called the practices “illegal and inhuman” and charged that they are a violation federal law – namely, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.

Rose told LifeNews: “It is clear from our investigation that Kermit Gosnell is just the tip of the iceberg. Our videos expose the truly gruesome, illegal, and inhuman practices going on inside many of America’s abortion clinics. Our investigation reveals that these inhuman practices make for just another day at the office to the doctors, nurses, counselors, and staff who engage in this abuse on a regular basis.”

In the video of the Bronx, New York abortion “counselor,” the staff member described how a born-alive baby would be placed in a jar of toxic “solution” to ensure death.

The videos are part of Live Action’s six-month undercover investigation shedding light on the illegal, inhuman, and gruesome practices of numerous clinics throughout the country.

“These clinics should be shut down,” Rose said, “and the doctors and clinic staff engaging in these inhuman and illegal practices should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is time to stop infanticide in its tracks, and the only way to do that is to bring justice for these babies born alive but left to die.”

Rose is calling for Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Attorney’s office to investigate and prosecute Dr. Santangelo, who is in violation of federal law. Rose also called on local health and law enforcement officials to similarly investigate Dr. Santangelo and put an end to his illegal and inhuman practices.

From the letter Live Action wrote to Attorney General Holder: “I do not exaggerate when I write that lives are at stake. Babies born alive from failed abortions have the same natural right to life, confirmed by the Declaration of Independence and protected by the United States Constitution, as any other human person. They must not be left to die, yet as Dr. Santangelo is caught on tape saying, “we will not help” them.”


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: abortion; inhuman; prolife
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1 posted on 04/29/2013 10:22:01 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

And then they wonder why pro-life religious took to shooting these bastards.


2 posted on 04/29/2013 10:23:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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Really the people who shot them were not “pro life”. They were just psychos who “slipped in” the pro life crowed to commit murder. They saw an easy target in the abortion doctors because they felt no one would care if they were killed. It is the same theory “Green River Gray” and others like him used when he killed those prostitutes.


4 posted on 04/29/2013 10:28:27 AM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

And of course, they will be filing charges immediately -— against the people who shot the film.


5 posted on 04/29/2013 10:29:23 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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6 posted on 04/29/2013 10:32:02 AM PDT by newheart (The worst thing the Left ever did was to convince the world it was not a religion.)
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To: Morgana

My name is Barrack Hussein Obama and I approve this message.


7 posted on 04/29/2013 10:32:11 AM PDT by Venturer
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8 posted on 04/29/2013 10:33:33 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Morgana
D.C. late-term abortion doctor Cesare Santengelo admits he would leave a baby struggling for life after a failed abortion to die.

Something has gone horribly wrong in a society that has so many people with this type of mindset. It started with Roe v. Wade and has devolved into wanton murder of viable children. In many respects, America has become a turd-world hellhole. I don't recognize my country anymore.

9 posted on 04/29/2013 10:37:32 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: Morgana

The media is deliberately withholding this from the public. If the public knew, there would be massive outrage. Except from the militant man-hating feminazis.


10 posted on 04/29/2013 10:40:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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