A Planned Parenthood clinic in the city of Orange, Calif., is shown here. A new report by Operation Rescue revealed that more than two-thirds of the abortion clinics in the United States have closed since 1991.
Posted on 04/05/2013 8:04:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Planned Parenthood clarified Thursday that it is not in favor of killing babies who survive a botched abortion. The clarification came after a representative of Florida Planned Parenthood suggested otherwise. The organization believes that taking a life should only be legal when the life is in the mother's womb.
In a statement before Florida lawmakers, Lillian Tamayo of Planned Parenthood said, "medical guidelines and ethics already compel physicians facing life-threatening circumstances to respond, and Planned Parenthood physicians provide high-quality medical care and adhere to the most rigorous professional standards, including providing emergency care. In the extremely unlikely event that the scenario presented by the panel of legislators should happen, of course Planned Parenthood would provide appropriate care to both the woman and the infant."
The confusion over whether Planned Parenthood believes infanticide should be legal began last week after Alisa LaPolt Snow of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates was asked, "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?"
Snow replied, "We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician."
When asked if Planned Parenthood physicians would act to save a baby if the baby were still alive after an abortion procedure, Snow answered, "I do not have that information."
Planned Parenthood's clarification came after Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus criticized the organization's apparent support of infanticide.
"Not once in her testimony did the Planned Parenthood representative say the newborn baby has a right to life. Not once did she say anyone has a duty to care for the child. Whether the living, breathing child survives is up to the adults in the room because, as we now know, Planned Parenthood doesn't believe the baby has rights," Priebus wrote.
Planned Parenthood's description of the infanticide of abortion survivors as an "extremely unlikely event" comes the same week in which jurors heard testimony in the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who is charged with murdering seven babies who survived his attempted abortions.
On Thursday, jurors heard Steven Massof, an assistant to Gosnell who has already pled guilty in the case, testify that the babies had a heartbeat and "visible chest movement" when he or Gosnell would "sever the spine" and "snip the neck."
"We had to ensure fetal demise. We had to prevent life. We had to kill. Simple as that," Massof said.
How magnanimous of them.
A distinction without a difference.
Anyone who would kill a baby would probably lie as well.
RE: ... but they should, however, be allowed to expire on their own.
That was what the Born Alive Babies Act was supposed to prevent.
Obama refused to support the Illinois version of it.
How highly thoughtful of the bloody butchers. But if they haven’t quite made it out of the birth canal, they’re ok to be slaughtered in a way even worse than we slaughter cattle to eat.
But, what about the Kenyan-born, illegal alien living in our White House? I thought he was totally in favor of letting these poor babies that were “accidentally” born be mercilessly killed by being thrown into medical waste bins or put in pans and put in closets until the little ones cry themselves to death. Huh? What about that, Planned Predators?
It’s a shame that these filthy, sick bastards are getting even a penny from our tax money.
Yes, and a tactical error by them as well, as any fool can observe through 3D (and even non 3D) imaging that that thing that’s about to be born/aborted forgodsakes is fully formed, human, breathing, kicking, etc, and the image we see seconds before abortion or botched abortion birth is one of an alive human being. That is the logical conclusion, who will follow it in the MSM? We’ll see.
I’m sure that will come as a relief to the babies they left to die after botched abortions over the past decades.
/ sarc.
Odumb@$$ is probably throwing a temper tantrum right now as he is reading FreeRepublic. he has to know where to get his information as the White Hut is the place of misinformation. Gee, did not he say “any woman who goes for an abortion, should get a successful abortion, if the baby is born alive, the baby should be killed’ here it is left to die.
always keep this in mind - Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham threw away the baby and what America has is really the afterbirth. A blob.
However partial birth abortions I bet are still OK with PP.
For everyone’s reference:
British Boy Survived Three Failed Abortion Attempts, Now Two Years-Old:
http://www.lifenews.com/2005/02/14/nat-1194/
Baby Boy Survives Abortion, Lived for Two Days After Doctors Left Him to Die:
http://www.lifenews.com/2010/04/28/int-1526/
Heroic Abortion Survivor Dies at Age 5:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1998/oct/98100503
Record Breaking Court Award for Abortion Survivor (Ximena Roberts):
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1999/aug/99080301
Judge: Abortionist Must Pay $36M to Botched Abortion Survivor
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/16/judge-abortionist-must-pay-36m-to-botched-abortion-survivor/
Baby Boy Survives Abortion, Lived for Two Days After Doctors Left Him to Die:
http://www.lifenews.com/2010/04/28/int-1526/
Heroic Abortion Survivor Dies at Age 5:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1998/oct/98100503
Record Breaking Court Award for Abortion Survivor (Ximena Roberts):
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1999/aug/99080301
Judge: Abortionist Must Pay $36M to Botched Abortion Survivor
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/16/judge-abortionist-must-pay-36m-to-botched-abortion-survivor/
Excerpt from the article: Pendergraft found himself in an Orange County courthouse facing a lawsuit from the daughter of Carol Howard, who wants a lifetime of medical care after she was born alive after a botched abortion began. The plaintiff is a 10-year-old girl with massive birth defects who survived the abortion. The plaintiff’s mother, Carol Howard, paid $1300 to have an abortion in November 2001 when she was 22 weeks pregnant.
Why not ask the people who REALLY know abortion from experience? (gives information on how 44,000 survivors has been estimated on only information provided)
http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-not-ask-people-who-really-know.html
66 babies in a year left to die after NHS abortions that go wrong
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-512129/66-babies-year-left-die-NHS-abortions-wrong.html
Failed Abortion (Research statistics on number of abortions that fail per year):
http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2008/06/failed-abortion.html
491 Babies Born Alive After Failed Abortions Left To Die In Canada (Statscan):
I'll bet there are at least 491 couples in Canada who'd be eager to adopt these little ones. How disgustingly tragic.
The irony is this — we rightfully mourn the 26 children slaughtered in Newtown, CT but ignore the HUNDREDS of children left to die in places like Canada and even here in the USA.
The organization believes that taking a life should only be legal when the life is in the mother's womb.Doh! Hits head! But, of course. That makes sense... What scum these PP people are. Here's a picture I took at a march close to my home. My daughter looked at it and said, "Mom, do you SEE anything in that picture?" I didn't but after awhile I saw what she saw. The shadow on the little girl's sign looks somewhat like a baby with its arms extended and hooked to the "l" in Planned, where one can imagine the baby getting its blood sucked dry. Bloodsuckers!!! All of them. Jesus, please save us.
HUNDREDS? We murder 3,300 unborn and newly born babies every day here in the good old U.S.
In response to recent discussion regarding Planned Parenthood’s position regarding abortive fetuses who are nonetheless born alive, we would like to take this opportunity to eliminate any confusion.
Let it be clear; Planned Parenthood does not condone, nor do we support, the killing of an extra-uterine fetus. We feel the only acceptable killing of a fetus is minutes earlier, when it is still in the womb.
Planned Parenthood does, however, support emerging technologies that would re-introduce the fetus into the womb in case of accidental live birth (a process called “de-birthing”).
Once replaced in the womb, the fetus may safely and legally be killed using usual humane abortion methods, such as burning it in a saline solution, dismemberment, or severing of the cervical spine without anesthesia.
We feel this stance is moral and consistent with the values of the average American. We maintain that those who disagree wish to drag modern America back to the dark ages, when people were routinely burned alive, dismembered, or decapitated in a savage manner. Do we really want to go back to that?
In summary, we support ethical abortion, just as we always have. Abortion is ethical. Seriously. There is no cognitive dissonance in that statement. Absolutely none. And if there is, you are a bigot, just like those mentioned in the previous paragraph.
We resent any attempts by our opposition to portray us as sadistic torturous monsters and apologize for any confusion that has resulted from those who mis-characterize our position.
As you can see, we are caring, compassionate individuals who want only the best for society.
/sarcasm
“Planned Parenthood’s description of the infanticide of abortion survivors as an “extremely unlikely event”
I’d bet that it happens more often than for the frequency of abortions that are provided to those that become pregnent as a result of rape.
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